Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.

The Field’s collection of a Chicago-area rodent is showing just how fast animals can evolve to co-exist with humans.

This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum will open a new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U.S.

Chipmunks are members of the same family as squirrels. The small rodents spend most of their time aboveground, eating seeds, ...

This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum is turning up the heat – and the chills – with its new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U.S.

Chicago rodents have evolved with city life. Museum skulls reveal how urbanization is quietly reshaping wildlife.

Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...

The Field Museum's mammal collections are made up of more than 245,000 specimens from all over the world, but there's an especially good representation of animals from Chicago, where the museum is ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science is filled with exhibits of dinosaur skeletons. And in the scientific equivalent of ...