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Field Museum

A reconstruction of the oldest known gorgonopsian in life.

Fossil Find of Saber-Toothed Predator Rewrites Early Mammal Evolution

Categories Life & Non-humans
Monarch butterfly on a milkweed flower.

Monarch butterflies need help, and a little bit of milkweed goes a long way

Categories Life & Non-humans
A blue-headed sunbird in the Albertine Rift: an example of a tropical bird with iridescent, colorful feathers.

Colorful Origins: Study Reveals Surprising History of Bird Feather Iridescence

Categories Life & Non-humans
Artist’s rendering of Gaiasia jennyae.

Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs

Categories Life & Non-humans
The fossil that was originally interpreted to be a plant, but researchers have now discovered is the inside of the shell of a baby turtle.

It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle

Categories Life & Non-humans
Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt in 1972, covered in lunar dust.

Crystals brought back by astronauts show that the Moon is 40 million years older than scientists thought

Categories Space
Life reconstruction of the ancient mammal relative Thrinaxodon from the Triassic Period of Earth history. Similar in size and shape to a modern mink, Thrinaxodon is close to the inferred size of the ancestor of the group of ancient mammal relatives called cynodonts, and it shared that ancestor’s likely preference for animal food. Image by April Neander.

Survival of the newest: the mammals that survive mass extinctions aren’t as “boring” as scientists thought

Categories Life & Non-humans
Shark

Virgin birth in sharks not always a ‘Hail Mary’ to get pregnant

Categories Life & Non-humans
A Whatcheeria skull in the collections of the Field Museum, with its many sharp teeth visible

Ancient superpredator got big by front-loading its growth in its youth

Categories Life & Non-humans
The shaggy soft-haired mouse, found in this study to experience changes in size based on which side of the Andes Mountains the individual lives on.

These mice grow bigger on the rainier sides of mountains. It might be a new rule of nature.

Categories Life & Non-humans
Alcohol-preserved specimens of Hydrablabes periops in the Field Museum's collections.

The art of getting DNA out of decades-old pickled snakes

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

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