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Edible Treasures Garden, Summer 2015

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Image above: Chinese rubbing in vermilion ink. Catalog Number 341389.

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Detail from a Baoulé wood mask from Côte d'Ivoire, Catalog Number 246067, © The Field Museum CC BY-NC 4.0., A114302_01d, Photographer John Weinstein

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Detail of a Saron Barung, which is a type of metallophone, from the gamelan featured in the Java Village at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Catalog Number 3.36011. © The Field Museum, GN91437_59d, Photographer John Weinstein.

Reconstructed stucco bust of King Shapur II from the archaeological site of Kish in Iraq

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Image above: Woman identified as Annie Atliu, daughter of Chief Atlieu of the Nuu-chah-nulth (Nootka), weaving baskets, c.1904. 

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Network mapping of the genetic relationships of islanders in the southwest Pacific (Figure 7 from Terrell, John Edward. 2010. Social network analysis of the genetic structure of Pacific Islanders.  Annals of Human Genetics 74: 211-232)

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Collage of PR 1634, Whatcheeria deltae & PR 2081, Tyrannosaurus

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PA 830 Archaeopteryx lithographica

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PF 15196, Masillosteus janeae, Holotype Grande, 2010

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P 14351, Thylacosmilus holotype, facing UC 1513, Lycaenops

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Before making storage mounts, Michelle Brownlee measures items that have been deinstalled from the Native North America Hall.

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Excursion to southern Thailand - February 2011

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Regenstein Pacific Lab

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Scarab beetles, Dymusia ratidula, showing diversity of species.
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Field Museum scientist Matt von Konrat examining dried moss collected in 2013 in a botanical survey as part of a  homicide investigation. Photo courtesy of Field Museum.

Solving mysteries with moss

Thorsten Lumbsch Vice President, Science and Education; Curator, Lichenized Fungi Science and Education

Field Museum’s VP of Science joins prestigious Royal Academy of Sciences academic staff, lauded for transformative work on lichens

Entrance to the Africa Hall  permenant exhibition

Renovations to the Field Museum’s Africa Hall, opening in 2028, will celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of African cultures, while highlighting complex innovations and new research on the world’s longest record of the human story

Left: Skull and skin from a vole, collected in 1898 in Chicago. Right: Authors Stephanie Smith and Anderson Feijó examining chipmunk specimens in the Field Museum’s collections.

Chicago’s rodents are evolving to handle city living