As you walk through the doors at our East Entrance, you may notice a western lowland gorilla seemingly standing guard. He’s pretty hard to miss. Bushman was the first gorilla to live in Chicago, ...
Takapsicapi, Peekitahaminki, and Caabnąįkiisik are just a few names of the game played in North America long before French settlers arrived and gave it their own name: “lacrosse.” Lacrosse is the ...
We can’t protect what we do not know, and now that we have confirmed that this other species of pangolin exists, we can use ...
Baby fossil tetrapods show that the common ancestors of amphibians, reptiles, and mammals did not evolve from animals with amphibian-like tadpoles, as previously thought Life on our planet began in ...
A fossil bed in northwestern China is littered with the remains of hundreds of prehistoric birds—including some whose broken bones were crushed into pellets, similar to those coughed up by modern owls ...
This newly-discovered blue octopus from the Galápagos Islands could curl up in the palm of your hand
The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else on Earth— things like marine iguanas and giant tortoises. In a new paper in ...
In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...
The Diros Project is an international, multi-disciplinary, Greek-American research project that explores human social dynamics on the Mani Peninsula of southern Greece. The project is co-directed by ...
Renaming Chicago's iconic Lake Shore Drive has renewed interest in the multicultural legacy of the city's first non-Native settler. Before the Chicago City Council voted to rename Lake Shore Drive in ...
While SUE the T. rex was getting ready for a new private suite, we met a whole crew of dinos out to play.
SUE the T. rex is an incredibly complete fossil, and Máximo the Titanosaur is a cast. Here’s why we have both. “Is that real?” This is a question we often hear from visitors as they roam the Field ...
In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...
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