Join award-winning children's book author Jennifer Swanson as she unveils her newest book, 3 Weeks in the Rainforest: A Rapid Inventory in the Amazon, and leads a conversation with featured ...

The Field Museum will close early on Wednesday, December 24 at 3pm (last entry at 2pm). The Museum will be closed on Thursday, December 25 and will reopen on Friday, December 26 with regular hours ...

Cryolophosaurus was a theropod dinosaur that Field Museum scientists discovered in Antarctica. Learn how we reconstructed this carnivorous dinosaur's skull by investigating the 3D model. The Griffin ...

MacArthur Field Biologist Steve Goodman has been named at the journal's Associate Editor for an initial term of three years.

Two new papers co-authored by Diego Elias (Bass Postdoctoral Fellow) and Caleb McMahan (Collections Manager of Fishes) have recently been published. See the details below: ...

The Linnean Society of London recently announced the award of the Darwin-Wallace Medal to Professor Sir Peter Crane, FMNH Research Associate and Trustee, and former Curator and Vice President of ...

Bill Parkinson, Field Museum Curator and University of Illinois–Chicago Professor of Anthropology, has been very active on the lecture circuit lately.

Julian Kerbis Peterhans (Roosevelt University, Adjunct Curator) spent late July and most of August in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he has started small mammal surveys following an ...

During a 1997 National Geographic-sponsored expedition (IOC97) with then-fish-curator Mark Westneat and others from the U.S. and Chile, Curator Rüdiger Bieler collected bivalves and other ...

We are happy to share that Dr. Luis Muro joined the Museum as a Curator Path Research Scientist in Anthropology in March. Luis was a postdoctoral research scientist at the the Field Museum in ...

Two new species of fossil plants were recently described in the American Journal of Botany by a research team comprised of Maya Bickner (Resident Grad Student), Fabiany Herrera (Negaunee Assistant ...

The Chinese version was released earlier this year by Paragon Press (the original English version was published in 2017 by University of Chicago Press, and a Korean translation was published in 2019 ...