Tiny plants, like moss, are easy to overlook. They're often as small as an eyelash, and they tend to grow on the ground in dark, wet places. But these small plants sometimes turn out to be big clues ...

Pre-Registered Illinois field trips are FREE everyday of the week! Free Wednesdays are the perfect opportunity for you to explore our general admission exhibitions with your family or a group of ...

Your stewardship helps the Field Museum connect people with the world we all share. Join today and continue to discover more about the world with us. All memberships are 100% tax-deductible. *Children ...

Museum open Daily 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, last entry 4:00 pm Closed on Thanksgiving and Christmas Day Museum is located at: ...

Field Museum members get special access to Pokémon Fossil Museum, including complimentary exhibition tickets and early preview opportunities before the exhibition opens to the public. Below you will ...

Stars have life cycles. They’re born when bits of dust and gas floating through space find each other and collapse in on each other and heat up. They burn for millions to billions of years, and then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Location, location, location—it’s the first rule of real estate. For a long time, it’s been widely assumed that being close to resources drives settlement patterns, with cities generally founded near ...

SUE the T. rex is the most famous fossil from the Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota—the most complete skeleton ever discovered of the world’s most popular dinosaur. When Field Museum scientists ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly-preserved body doesn’t tell the whole story of how that ...

Schematic showing a subset of the animals that were investigated as part of the study, with warm-blooded animals in orange and cold-blooded in blue. From left to right: Plesiosaurus, Stegosaurus, ...