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 ...

The Amazon Basin contains the world’s largest system of rainforest and rivers. Two of these rivers, the Putumayo and the Algodón, merge near the northern border of Peru, and the region shaped by these ...

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CHICAGO – Pokémon Fossil Museum, the Japanese special exhibition that compares beloved characters from the popular video games to real-life dinosaurs and other ancient animals, will be making its ...

Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán with the carving of a mythological bird creature in La Otra Banda, Cerro Las Animas. Photo by the Ucupe Cultural Landscape Archaeological Project A team of ...

A team of archaeologists, led by Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynoñán, has unearthed the remains of what appears to be a four-thousand-year-old temple and theater in coastal Peru.

Lithouva - the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil accompanied with CT scan reconstruction. Bottom shows artist ...

Left: The blue-eyed cicada. Photo by Daniel Le, Field Museum. Right: Greta Bailey, Jack Bailey at the Field Museum to donate the blue-eyed cicada. Photo by Danielle Williams, Field Museum. The cicadas ...

Left: 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. Photo by Fabiany Herrera and Héctor Palma-Castro. Right ...

Left: Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt, covered in moon dust. Photo courtesy of NASA. Right: A lunar zircon grain under a microscope. Photo courtesy of Jennika Greer. More than 4 billion years ago ...

The Field Museum’s Dino Days of Summer are officially coming to an end! As we look back on all of the cool things we did this summer, (like welcoming Sobek the Spinosaurus and launching our first-ever ...