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Remaking Akeley's Striped Hyenas Diorama

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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Inside the Whale Warehouse

Black-and-white nighttime photo of a jaguar walking in the forest. Its eyes are illuminated by the camera flash.

The Jaguar and Its Grandchildren

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A jaguar captured by a camera trap during the April 2018 rapid inventory. We captured a total of 10,373 camera trap photos during the inventory, of which 3,646 show mammals.

Looking down on a man holding a pipette and applying a liquid to a fossil dicynodont skull that is still partially buried in the ground.

Fossils in Zambia Are a Window into Extinction

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Skunk Dissection

Painting the CARACAL

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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Carl Akeley's Fighting Elephants

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

A brown lemur sitting in a tree, staring ahead with wide eyes.

Lemurs Are Weird Because Madagascar’s Fruit Is Weird

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Photo: Luca Santini

Lemurs Are Weird Because Madagascar's Fruit Is Weird

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.

Lifelike illustration of a a large brown rat on a tree branch, surrounded by green foliage.

Tree-Dwelling Giant Rat Discovered in Solomon Islands

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Illustration of the new giant rat by Velizar Simeonovski.

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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I Waited 4+ Years For This: World Taxidermy Championships!

Wolves Can Be a Bit Coy

A skunk with a white zigzag pattern walking on a log

Spotted Skunk Evolution Driven by Climate Change

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© Robby Heischman

A small rat sitting on a bright green plant, nibbling a leaf

First Mammal Extinct from Human-Induced Climate Change?

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Bramble Cay melomys

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.

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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Monster Mystery Solved

Tully Monster reconstruction by Sean McMahon

Top 10 Science, Nature, and Culture Stories of 2016

Antlers: What's Their Function?

T. rex Arms & BEARDOGS! | Natural News | Ep. 6

Eight of the Most Nightmarish Prehistoric Animals

Do All Bats Echolocate?

Four Animals That Raise Cubs

Sex Lives of Peregrine Falcons & Time Travel Discoveries | Natural News | Ep. 2

Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

The Man-Eating Lions of Tsavo

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

A brown bat with long nose and wings spread out

This Mammal Pollinator Has a Nose for Flowers

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Dedicated Animal Dads That Care for Their Young

Five Ways Animals Keep Their Cool

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

Seven Animal Moms Almost as Good as Yours

Putting Together the Pieces to Prevent Tiger Extinction

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© Prasenjeet Yadav

The Birds and the Bees: Craziest Animal Mating Stories

Carl Akeley's Striped Hyenas

Painting the Diorama

Bending Fossils: Experiments In Paleontology (Harvard Adventures, Part 3)

Fisher Dissection: Harvard Adventures, Part 2

The Origin of Mammal Movement: Harvard Adventures, Part I

Specimens That Will Haunt Your Dreams

Tea Parties, Bird Barf, and Rat Skulls

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The Naked Mole-Rat

Possible New Primate Discovered in Peru

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Mystery Callicebus from Peru

How to Taxidermy a Squirrel

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

Naked Mole Rat

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An Early Nocturnal Ancestor

Nocturnal Synapsids

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Fossil Fish, Pt. II: A History

The Breast Episode Ever

Mummies and Cheetahs, in 3D!

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Carl Akeley's Fighting African Elephants

Carl Akeley's Four Seasons

Zebra Bits

The Hero Shrew

Hiding in Plain Sight at the Field Museum

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

Olinguito

Chicago Adventure, Part Six: The Spice of Life

Chicago Adventure, Part Five: The Platypus, The Skin, & The Cold

Chicago Adventure, Part Four: Rodents of Unusual Size (And Other Mammals, Too)

Chicago Adventure, Part Three: Little Skeletons

Mammalian Diversification

Another Thursday night for the Bird Division

Ask Emily #3

Pangolins

Must We Fence Parks to Save Lions?

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Horns vs. Antlers

Domestication

Tetrapodal Locomotion

Gutting the Wolf

A Bear Skull

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

Discovering diversity in the Philippines: seven new mammals from Luzon

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Dwarf Cloud Rat Re-discovered After 112 Years

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Man-eating Lions Ate Fewer People Than Believed

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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

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Remaking Akeley's Striped Hyenas Diorama

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Bushman the Gorilla

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Newly-declared conservation area in Peru is home to pink dolphins, giant armadillos, and woolly monkeys

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