Women's History Month

The Field Museum

3 Questions with a Scientist: Hopping Rats

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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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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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

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.

Coyote and Wolf Skinning

A skunk with a white zigzag pattern walking on a log

Spotted Skunk Evolution Driven by Climate Change

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© Robby Heischman

Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

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

Drawing of an animal that looks like a large cat with small ears and long, sharp teeth

Dueling Sabers: What This Marsupial has in Common With a Cat

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Reconstruction of saber-toothed marsupial Thylacosmilus

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

Possible New Primate Discovered in Peru

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Mystery Callicebus from Peru

Naked mole-rats: Not a mole, not a rat, and not an African mole-rat

Naked Mole Rat

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Fossil Fish, Pt. II: A History

Ask Emily #7

Ask Emily #5

Media

Species in a world that thinks there is a clear division between basic and applied science

Mammalian Diversification

Another Thursday night for the Bird Division

Domestication

The Spirit Collection

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

Fieldwork on "The Bats of Kenya"

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Burrowing owl at Montrose

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The Naming of the Shrew

Bat Calls From Kenya

Road kill

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Mbinu kwa ajili ya kumbukumbu za Historia ya Data

Cloud Rat

Meet Kipunji

Técnicas para registrar datos de historia natural

Techniques for Recording Natural History Data

Frozen Fruit Bats

Science at FMNH : Ep. 27 - Museum Collections and the Mammals of Tanzania

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

Science at FMNH : Ep. 24 - Human Impact on Ecosystems

Lion mane linked to climate

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Sitting lion with a large mane.

Recently acquired ectoparasites

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Do skeletal dimensions predict daily activity patterns in rodents?

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2011 REU Intern Stephanie Smith

Do some nocturnal Malaysian mammals see in color?

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2011 REU Intern Graham Haviland

Evolution and patterns of reproduction in Philippine mammals

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2010 REU Intern Vincent Fitzpatrick

Mammals

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Fossils & Meteorites

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Geology

A woman holds up a little boy as they look into a taxidermy case filled with snakes, squirrels, and another small mammal.

What Is an Animal? & Animal Biology

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A group of young visitors enjoy an exhibit in The Machine Inside exhibition.

The Machine Inside: Biomechanics

Farrah Carrasco

Farah Carrasco Rueda

Anderson Feijó

New Field Museum exhibition explores the curious world of cats

Field Museum launches photo contest for Cats: Predators to Pets

Rewriting the armadillo family tree: a new species, plus a name change for the state mammal of Texas

Field Museum devela los misterios de las profundidades del océano en su nueva exhibición Océanos nunca antes vistos

Mammals

Explore this topic through the content here and the halls of the Museum.

Articles and videos

3 Questions with a Scientist: Hopping Rats

Bushman the Gorilla

Sperm Can Confirm that Lookalike Mice Are Different Species

Exhibit Halls

What Is an Animal? & Animal Biology

The Machine Inside: Biomechanics

Related Projects

Mammals of Tanzania

Supplement to the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals

Synopsis of Philippine Mammals

Emerging Pathogens Project

People

Farah Carrasco Rueda

Anderson Feijó

Press Releases

New Field Museum exhibition explores the curious world of cats

Field Museum launches photo contest for Cats: Predators to Pets

Rewriting the armadillo family tree: a new species, plus a name change for the state mammal of Texas

Field Museum devela los misterios de las profundidades del océano en su nueva exhibición Océanos nunca antes vistos

Related Areas

Mammals

Geology

Related Topics

Bill Stanley's Professional Accomplishments

Mesoplodon ginkgodens

Apomys banahao

Apomys zambalensis

Activities

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