A vertebra bone that has iridescent rainbow coloring on one side.

Working in Paleontology: An Introduction to the Collections

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Illustration of a forest scene, with prehistoric animals on either side of a creek. In the foreground, a black and blue striped lizard-like animal perches on a rock as it appears to hunt a winged insect. A smaller lizard crosses a log over the creek. On the other side, two flat-faced, pig-sized animals approach the water’s edge, and a dinosaur creeps in the background.

These New Fossil Discoveries Show Why Evolution is the Coolest

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Side-by-side graphic of SUE the T. rex, showing before and after changes. The areas that have been moved or changed are highlighted in gray.

A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE

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Compare how SUE's shape and pose changed from 2000 (left) to 2018 (right).

Close-up view of brown tail vertebrae that curve around. They're positioned on a white cushion.

Rediscovering a Dinosaur Named Elmer

The dinosaur's eight-foot-long tail is nearly complete.

The Field Museum

Meteorite or MeteorWRONG?

SUE the T. rex dinosaur skeleton on display in a museum gallery. Screens behind the dinosaur show a forest scene.

SUE the T. rex

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Illustration of a large, long-necked dinosaur on a tropical beach

New Titanosaur on the Map, Mansourasaurus

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Image credit: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Caihong juji. Illustration: Velizar Simeonovski

This Rainbow Dinosaur Had Iridescent Feathers

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Caihong juji

A woman sitting at a desk with art supplies, holding a pencil in hand and drawing a nautilus

Bringing Fossils to Life Through Art

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Two human scientists fiddling with my gastralia.

From T. rex to Titanosaur, Big Dinosaur Changes

Various rocks sorted out by type on a piece of white pastic

Beachgoer’s Guide to Lake Michigan Fossils and Rocks

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Beachgoer's Guide to Lake Michigan Fossils and Rocks

Fossil Myths: Cyclopes, Griffins, & Magic Fairy Bread

Fascinating Meteorites With Clues To Understanding Our Solar System

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The Meteorites exhibition, now open at the Museum

Monster Mystery Solved

Tully Monster reconstruction by Sean McMahon

Is the Tully Monster a Vertebrate or an Enigma?

Side-by-side of a woman seated at a desk, working on a drawing, and a close-up of an illustration of orange foxes

Women in Art: Adrienne Stroup, Geology Collections Assistant

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Today’s Rare Meteorites Were Once Common

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Artist’s rendering of the space collision 466 million years ago that gave rise to many of the meteorites falling today. 
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Today's Rare Meteorites Were Once Common

An artist's rendering of an prehistoric carnivore called a beardog, with it's mouth open reaching for an insect.

Fossil "Beardogs" Shed Light On Evolution Of Dogs

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© Monica Jurik, The Field Museum

SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex’s Arm for Argonne Study

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Fossil skeleton of SUE the T. rex

SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex's Arm for Argonne Study

Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

An artist's rendering of a small dinosaur being chased through a field by two larger dinosaurs, while two other small dinosaurs run away in the background.

Newly-discovered dinosaur had “T. rex arms” that evolved independently

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© Jorge González and Pablo Lara

Two images, one showing the outside of a rock and the other showing the cross section, which is speckled tan, black and gold

A Breakup with Lasting Impact: Meteorites from a 470-Million-Year-Old Split

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Park Forest meteorite specimen. Photos 

Zoomed in photo of a fly-like insect trapped in orange amber

Revisiting “Jurassic Park”: Could Dinosaurs Really be Cloned?

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Field Museum specimen of an insect trapped in 40-million-year-old Baltic amber.

Tully monster mystery SOLVED!

Monsters Storm The Field

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Compiling an atlas of phylogenetic characters for anomodont therapsids

Fossil Meteorites Arrive at The Field Museum

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Fossil Fish, PT. III: The Preparation

Fossil Meteorites

About the Turnbull Collection

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SUE's Microbes go to Space

Meteorites From Spaaaaaace!

Terry Boudreaux donates unique meteorite to the Field Museum

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Mysterious Green Meteorite Lands at The Field Museum

Field Museum meteorite research presented at the MetSoc Meeting in Edmonton, Alberta

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Chelyabinsk meteorite donated to Field Museum

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Russian Meteorite Lands at Field Museum

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Mifflin Meteorite Results Published in Meteoritics & Planetary Science

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New Giant Sea Predator Discovered

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Science paper: The Sutter's Mill Meteorite

We Are All Stardust

"Battle Mountain" Meteorite Donated

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Study on sulfur-rich comet dust published

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Rare Meteorite from California Fireball to be Donated to The Field Museum

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Field Museum receives donation of rare, ungrouped achondrite

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New Kenyan Meteorite Thika Donated

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Science at FMNH : Ep. 45 - Equipment for a Paleontological Dig

Science at FMNH : Ep. 40 - Ancient Trade and Exchange

Digitization Peña Blanca Spring

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Second Interstellar Dust Foil from NASA Stardust Mission Arrived at Field Museum

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Science at FMNH : Ep. 13 - The Geologic Record & Environmental Change

Unusual meteorite donated to the Field Museum

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Making the skeletons dance

Field Museum Scientists Study Ancient Asteroid Impact

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Space Travel Time and Preatmospheric Size of Mifflin

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Fossil Invertebrates Diversity

Photo Archives Geology Gallery

Photo Archives Zoology Gallery

Photo Archives Anthropology Gallery

"Google Earth" Meteorite Gebel Kamil donated to the Field Museum

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Grainger Hall of Gems Exhibition Photo Gallery

Fossils & Meteorites

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Geology

Once preparators complete their extractions, the finished fossils are examined and compared with related fossils, forming the data for a published study—the final step in the process.

McDonald’s Fossil Preparation Lab

View of the Grainger Hall of Gems from the entrance, with many display cases visible. A stained glass window featuring a mermaid is visible in the center.

Grainger Hall of Gems

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Hall of Gems Photograph

Meteorites

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Girl in the meteorites  gallery using a touch screen

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Paul Mayer

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Lance Grande

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Arjan Mann

Ian Glasspool

William Simpson

Akiko Shinya

Pia Viglietti

Michael Donovan

Ken Angielczyk

Constance Van Beek

James Holstein

Adrienne Stroup

Jingmai O'Connor

Phil Heck

Philipp Heck

Media for Focus: Fossil Invertebrates

Scott Lidgard

Fabiany Herrera Tolosa

Biggest dinosaur ever discovered coming to The Field Museum in 2018, thanks to gift from Kenneth C. Griffin

Dust from a giant asteroid crash caused an ancient ice age

Blue crystals in meteorites show that our Sun went through the “terrible twos”

One small grain of Moon dust, one giant leap for lunar studies

Get Your Mystery Objects Identified at the Field Museum

Crystals brought back by astronauts show that the Moon is 40 million years older than scientists thought

Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust

Field Museum adds rare “cosmic mudball meteorite” to its collections

World’s largest fossil meteorite collection donated to Field Museum for research

17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica

Meteorite provides record of asteroids “spitting out” pebbles

Today’s rare meteorites were once common

“Fireball” meteorite contains pristine extraterrestrial organic compounds

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Mazon Creek Fossil Invertebrates

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Mazon Creek flora

A low relief panel, or frieze, by Henry Hering depicting a winged female figure wearing a flowing gown and holding a globe with North and South American continents and a torch representing fire.

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Working in Paleontology: An Introduction to the Collections

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A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE

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