Fossil Invertebrates - History

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Fossil Plants - History

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Meteorite slice.

Meteorites - History

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Remembering Bill Stanley

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Popular / Leaflet Series

Eric Smith, Harry Nelson, Hank Dybas, John Kethley, Rupe Wenzel, and Larry Watrous circa. 1980.

Insects - History

Focus: Gems and Minerals - History

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Gems and Minerals - History

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Fishes - History

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Oliver C. Farrington

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Emeus crassus

Fossil Vertebrates - History

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Preparation Lab History

Economic Botany - History

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Mammals - History

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Zoology: History

Seed Plants - History

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Amphibians & Reptiles - History

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Birds - History

Winter camp scene. Wigwam shaped tent covered with caribou skins in a winter camp of the people at head of Flowers River.  Young dog in foreground. Barren Ground people at head of Flower River
 
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First and Second Rawson-MacMillan Subarctic Expeditions

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CSA61437c

Supplement to the Synopsis of Philippine Mammals

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Peregrine Removed from Illinois' Endangered List

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Peregrine Shot

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Monster Mystery Solved

Tully Monster reconstruction by Sean McMahon

Top 10 Science, Nature, and Culture Stories of 2016

Illinois' first White-winged Dove specimen

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Brown and white bird perched on a branch in front of a blue sky

Merlin confirmed nesting in Illinois for the first time!

Merlin by John Picken

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Peregrine Falcons Removed from IL Endangered List

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Illinois to remove Peregrine Falcon from [state] Threatened Species List

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Recounting the life of a successful Peregrine

Fran photographed at the Waukegan nest site.

The 12 plants of Christmas

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Decorations in the Botany Library in 1966

Bivalve Symposium, World Congress of Malacology

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Cover of the resulting published volume.

Your First Look at the Pokémon Fossil Museum in Chicago

Two images, one of a man with braids in a chef's coat plating several identical dishes; and several cobs of corn of different colors laid out flat

The Sioux Chef: Reinvigorating Indigenous Food Systems

Two images, one of a man with braids in a chef's coat plating several identical dishes; and several cobs of corn of different colors laid out flat. Sean Sherman by Rina Oh for the James Beard Foundation. Corn cobs from Cottonwood Canyon, Utah, in the Museum's collection.

Lynika Stroizer working in a lab at the museum.

Lynika Strozier: A Face of Science

Your Guide to Spring Break 2025

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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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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Andrew W. Mellon Connecting Communities to Collections Program

Side-by-side graphic of SUE the T. rex, showing before and after changes. The areas that have been moved or changed are highlighted in gray.

A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE

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Compare how SUE's shape and pose changed from 2000 (left) to 2018 (right).

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3 Questions with a Scientist: Baby Sharks

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Botany and Mycology

Insects, Arachnids and Myriapods

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

Gantz Family Collections Center

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Fossil Invertebrates

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

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Using Modern Technology to Construct Ancient Ritual

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In a 1922 Charles Knight mural, a group of Protoceratops gather on a sandy hill, one watching over a clutch of eggs, while two stand nearby. Another in the background eats leaves from a small tree.

Photo Archives - Charles Knight Paintings Gallery

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Protoceratops, Mesozoic era. Primitive ceratopsian dinosaur with eggs, found in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, 1922. ID# CK10T

Resident Artists

A woman points to egg specimens in a tray while two people look on.

Grainger Bioinformatics Center

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Visitor Services

SUE stands proudly in their suite located in the Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibition. An animated forest is visible in the background.

Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet & SUE the T. rex

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RI-32 Environmental DNA team at work

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Pritzker DNA Lab

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P 14351, Thylacosmilus holotype, facing UC 1513, Lycaenops

Fossil Mammals & Non-mammalian Synapsids

Reptiles Alive!

After the Age of Dinosaurs

Cyrus Tang Hall of China

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Pair of stone lions

Entrance to the Africa Hall  permenant exhibition

Africa

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Black-eyed Susans in the foreground with the North side of the Field Museum in the background.

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