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 ...

“Cape lions” once roamed the Cape Flats grassland plains of South Africa, in what is now known as Western Cape Providence. After Europeans arrived in South Africa in the mid-1600s, Cape lions were ...

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: ...

Resident Graduate Student Debarun Mukherjee (University of Chicago, Dept. of Geophysical Sciences) was awarded the prestigious Quad Fellowship 2024, one of only two UChicago students to receive the ...

MacArthur Field Biologist Steve Goodman and colleagues from Association Vahatra spent several weeks performing a field school and biological inventory of the Mantadia National Park Forest. The trip ...

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 ...

From May 13 - 17, 35 librarians from as far away as New Zealand came to the Field Museum for the annual meeting of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), a partnership of international natural ...

Pritzker Curator of Meteoritics and Polar Studies Philipp Heck has been named the Chair of the Extraterrestrial Materials Analysis Group (ExMAG), which focuses on the collection, curation, and ...

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