A small crocodile mummy wrapped in brown cloth with the eyes drawn on, and other similar bundles in the background

Animal Mummies for Sale in Ancient Egypt

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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 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.

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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

The 300-Year Quest to Find Every Tree Species in the Amazon

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Amazonian forest in the Putumayo basin of Loreto, Peru, surveyed during a February 2016 rapid inventory by The Field Museum. Photo 

Stabilizing the Plaster on Minirdis’ Coffin

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Conservator Morgan Nau stabilizes plaster fills with adhesive injected with a syringe. Photo credit: JP Brown. Object number 111517.

Stabilizing the Plaster on Minirdis' Coffin

Two views of the coffin of Minirdis, from above (front) and one side.

Opening the Coffin of Minirdis

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Photos by Sophie Hammond-Hagman.

3D X-Ray Microtomography Reconstructions

Radiography of a Baining Mask

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Bringing new beetles to light

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2012 REU Intern Anthony Deczynski

Easy way to merge images and data with flickr

Preparing for XRF in the Regenstein Lab

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Computed Tomography (CT) Scanning

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Do some nocturnal Malaysian mammals see in color?

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2011 REU Intern Graham Haviland

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Animal Mummies for Sale in Ancient Egypt

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

What Makes a Man-Eater? Check the Teeth

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