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Remaking Akeley's Striped Hyenas Diorama

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The Black Taxidermy Hall of Famer You Need to Know

Pink coneflowers in front of the Field Museum's north entrance on a sunny day with clear blue skies.

Make the Most of Your Summer Museum Visit

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The Rice Native Gardens at the Field use native prairie plants like coneflowers.

Make the Most of Your Museum Visit

2020 Year in Review

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A series of six painted iguanas in different colors and stages of the process.

Fact and Fiction About Watercolor

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Two children seated at a table look at picture books.

Experience the Field at Home

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Carl Cotton, wearing a lab coat, stands in front of a display of bird specimens. He looks down at a card he’s holding in his hand.

A Natural Talent: The Taxidermy of Carl Cotton

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Carl Cotton places individual letters on a label for an exhibition featuring hybrid birds.

Carl Cotton: Chicago's Original Black Taxidermist

Carl Cotton, holding a paintbrush, sits at a table with various art supplies and a large model of a turtle.

Finding Carl Cotton

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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.

In the foreground, an eye-level view of a black plastic structure holding plants. The background includes the museum's Stanley Field Hall, with two totem poles to the left and three cloud-like black plastic structures suspended from the ceiling.

Bringing the Great (Cretaceous) Outdoors Inside

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Painting the CARACAL

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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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

Beaver dissection HIGHLIGHTS!

The Rare Book Room!

A man holding the upper jaw of a very large animal, with long pointed teeth. The man is kneeling on the floor in between two rows of shelves that hold other fossils

Q&A with a Fossil Mammals Curator

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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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Spring Migration Notes...By a Murderer

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.

Two photos side-by-side: A women sitting in front of a large drill, and a bowl with a gold bracket attached to it, for display

What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Dinosaur

Women in Art: Ann Prazer, Mountmaker

Shelves of large, ornate books in different colors (green, brown, red, blue), many with gold designs emblazoned on their spines

Four Fascinating Finds in the Rare Book Room

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Facts Matter at The Field Museum

How Our Fossil Prep Lab Helped Fight Real-Life Crime

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Using a water-cooled rock saw to cut rhino horn for a special request.