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2025
Community scientists at the Field Museum have digitized more than a quarter-million items and records
December 17, 2024Press release type:
- Events and Announcements
- Digitization
- Collections
Fossil predator is the oldest known animal with “saber teeth”
December 16, 2024Press release type:
- Science
- Negaunee Integrative Research Center
- Vertebrates
- Fossils
Largest-ever scientific expedition to Guyana’s rainforest returns
December 10, 2024Press release type:
- Science
- Keller Science Action Center
- Rapid Inventories
New Field Museum exhibition explores the curious world of cats
November 7, 2024Press release type:
- Exhibitions
- Cats
- Mammals
- Mammals
- Exhibitions
Field Museum launches photo contest for Cats: Predators to Pets
November 6, 2024Press release type:
- Events and Announcements
- Mammals
- Exhibitions
- Animals
New research on mummified remains offer scientists rare glimpse behind ancient wrappings
October 24, 2024Press release type:
- Science
Predatory birds from the same fossil formation as SUE the T. rex
October 8, 2024Press release type:
- Science
- Negaunee Integrative Research Center
- Paleontology
- Birds
- Fossils
Zeroing in on the genes that snakes use to produce venom
September 18, 2024Press release type:
- Science
- Negaunee Integrative Research Center
- Amphibians & Reptiles
- DNA
Don’t judge a fossil by its teeth: despite its toothy beak, this ancient bird ate fruit, not fish
September 9, 2024Press release type:
- Science
- Negaunee Integrative Research Center
- Paleontology
- Birds
- Fossils
Monarch butterflies need help, and a little bit of milkweed goes a long way
July 30, 2024Press release type:
- Science
- Keller Science Action Center
- Insect Collections
- Insects
- Insects
- Flowering Plants
- Environment & Conservation
- Monarchs
The ancestor of all modern birds probably had iridescent feathers
July 25, 2024Press release type:
- Science
- Negaunee Integrative Research Center
- Ornithology
- Birds