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Meet Chicago's Native Bees

Darkling Beetles: Spray acid, play dead

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Venoms vs. Poisons

A bright red frog with blue legs perches on a wide green leaf that has spikes along its edges.

3 Questions with a Scientist: Poison Frogs

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3 Questions with a Scientist: Hopping Rats

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3 Questions with a Scientist: Baby Sharks

Two young girls look up at a taxidermied gorilla in a glass display case. The gorilla’s head is angled such that it appears to be making eye contact with the children. A digital rail, a screen on a stand, is positioned in front of the case. In the background, large-scale photographs of objects are affixed to the wall.

Bushman the Gorilla

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A mouse perched on sticks surrounded by dried brown leaves.

Sperm Can Confirm that Lookalike Mice Are Different Species

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Illustration of a large, shell-less turtle with a rounded body and long tail, swimming underwater. The sea floor appears rocky, with some grasses.

This Turtle Had No Shell, but the First Toothless Beak

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Two women wearing headlamps peer into the mouth of a large taxidermy elephant

Q&A with a Conservator on the Complex History of Ivory

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Conservators Eugenie Milroy (left) and Stephanie Hornbeck examine the teeth and tusks of one of the Akeley elephants in the Field Museum's Stanley Field Hall

Four visitors stand together in front of two Lions of Tsavo dioramas. The leftmost visitor takes a picture of two lion skulls displayed on pedestals near the lions inside the diorama case.

Tsavo Lions

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Two photos, one of a black and white bird with a red head on a tree; one of a row of jars of museum specimens

What Woodpecker Brains Can Tell Us about Concussions

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Left: Downy Woodpecker, Arlene Koviol. Right: Field Museum wet specimens.

Close-up of a lion with a mane and a leather and metal collar around its neck

Giving Mammals Like Tsavo Lions Room to Roam

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A lion in Tsavo, Kenya, whose movements were tracked for this study

Carl Akeley's Fighting Elephants

The 'Sistine Chapel of Taxidermy'—Conserving Akeley's Elephants

A necklace made of beads and pointy teeth, resting on a wooden surface

How to Save Giant Tropical Fruit Bats

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Flying fox teeth strung into a necklace and used as currency on the island of Makira.

Rows of bird specimens with yellow necks; half have gray stomachs and half have white bellies

What Hundred-Year-Old Birds Tell Us About the Environment

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A pinkish purple octopus with a large black eye sitting on the ocean floor, with arms curled

How To Tell Deep-Sea Octopuses Apart? Check Their Warts.

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Photo courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

A yellowed animal skull with large canine teeth, on a white surface and backdrop

What Makes a Man-Eater? Check the Teeth

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The skull of one of the Tsavo man-eating lions.

Woman sitting at a table in a lab, holding a marker and writing on something small

Women in Science and Art: Rebecca Banasiak, Mammals Collections Assistant and Preparator

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Numbering small skeletal specimens that will be installed into the main mammals collection.

A bee perched on a light blue-green plant with round buds. The background is an out-of-focus green prairie.

Planting Your Native Garden

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A bee perches on a rattlesnake master, a perennial plant that's native to Illinois.

Antlers: What's Their Function?

Left: Pieces of eggshell and small bones laid out in rows. Right: A young boy and an older woman carry live turkeys by the feet through a market.

Unearthing Evidence of Turkey Domestication 1,500 Years Ago

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Left: Turkey bones and eggshells from 1,500 years ago discovered in Oaxaca, Mexico. Right: A boy with domestic turkeys in Oaxaca. Both images 

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Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

We've got 'em! Meet the Real-Life Amphibians and Reptiles of Pokémon

A tiny primate, the Goodman's mouse lemur, held in a person's hand.

Ridiculously Cute Mouse Lemurs Hold Key To Madagascar’s Past

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A Goodman’s mouse lemur, named for study co-author Steve Goodman, was one of the species studied. The lemur’s scientific name is Microcebus lehilahytsara—“lehilahytsara” is Malagasy for “good man,” after Steve. , Zoo Zurich

Ridiculously Cute Mouse Lemurs Hold Key To Madagascar's Past

An artist's rendering of a Purgatorius unio, a small prehistoric mammal resembling a squirrel.

Mammals began their takeover long before the death of the dinosaurs

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© Nobu Tamura

Hummingbird hovering near a plant with red flowers

Five Native Plants to Grow in Your Home Garden

Seven Animal Moms Almost as Good as Yours

Beetles, Mites, Cockroaches Oh My! [Insect Collection Tour]

5 Behind-the-Scenes Specimens with Links to Darwin

The Birds and the Bees: Craziest Animal Mating Stories

Fire Frogs and Eel-like Amphibians

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“Fire Frogs” and Eel-like Amphibians

Tea Parties, Bird Barf, and Rat Skulls

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Defining the "Edges" of Life On Earth

In Search of Night Life

What the Function? with Smarter Every Day!

How to Pin an Insect

Will we maintain our connections to other natural history institutions around the world?

Fieldwork Photos from Fishes

A Century of Butterflies and Moths

Vocalizations of Willard's Sooty Boubou

Investigating little ornithological questions can lead to bigger things

Cloud Rat

Science at FMNH : Ep. 26 - Mammal Conservation in Island Ecosystems

Studying molt in birds

Fossil Carrion Feeders

Making the skeletons dance

Venomous Fishes Gallery

Scarab beetles, Dymusia ratidula, showing diversity of species.
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Scarab beetles, Dymusia ratidula, showing diversity of species.
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Zoology

Alan Resetar

Janet Voight

Lauren Nassef

Adam Ferguson portrait

Adam Ferguson

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Robin Delapena

Thomas Gnoske

Ben  Winger

Chad Eliason

Susan Mochel

Nina Sandlin

John Bates

Rudiger Bieler

Peter Lowther

Rebecca Banasiak

Mary Hennen

Kevin Swagel

Lauren Johnson

David  Willard

Ben Marks

Caleb McMahan

Shannon Hackett

Steven Goodman

Sara Ruane

Chun Kamei

Al Newton portrait

Alfred Newton

Bruce Patterson, Curator Emeritus (right), and colleague (left)

Bruce Patterson

Margaret Thayer portrait

Margaret Thayer

Bruno de Medeiros

Petra Sierwald

Jim Louderman

Jessica Wadleigh

Tatiana Sepulveda Villa

Martin Pryzdia

Fishes Dried Skeleton Collection

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Fishes Collection

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Close-up view of a gecko showing only its head and frog-like eyes.

Amphibian and Reptile Collections

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Bird Egg Collection

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A cropped photo of the African Water Hole diorama, featuring a family of giraffe on the left, a rhinoceros in the bottom center, and several zebra on the right.

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