The fossil was tiny— about the size of a modern sparrow— but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called ...

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This website provides maps published in 2000 and 2006 that depict sea level change on the Sunda and Sahul Continental Shelves during the Pleistocene. Copyrights on ...

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Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It’s the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones alive today— are dinosaurs. And while the first ...

Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP) is a powerful technique of chemical characterization capable of simultaneously measuring up to 50 different elements, including trace elements, ...

Reassembling broken pottery from archaeological excavations is a periodic feature of an object conservator's professional life. In past times pots have been reassembled with adhesives (such as ...

Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. Photo by the Ucupe Cultural Landscape Archaeological Project A team of ...

The Marie Louise Rosenthal Library serves Field Museum staff, visiting scholars, and the public. The Main Library, located in a non-public area on the Museum's third floor, is accessible by ...

Twenty-foot-long specimens described as separate species from their cousins, named after mythology’s Hydra A fossil called Tanystropheus was first described in 1852, and it’s been puzzling scientists ...

ABBOTT, M.L., 1954. Revision of the Palaeozoic fern genus Oligocarpia. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 96, 39–65. ARNOLD, C.A. 1938. Note on a lepidophyte strobilus ...