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Changes to size, teeth and ears in various rodents in Chicago found to be part of their adaptation to human development.
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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.
Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s ...
This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum will open a 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.
In all, the Field Museum's collection of amphibians and reptiles is one of the six largest herpetological collections in the U.S., with over 300,000 specimens.
Fossil nerds and speculators help make the Field Museum's Mazon Creek collection world-famous Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money ...
Taxidermied felines are among the cat specimens visitors can see in the Field Museum’s new exhibit, “Cats: Predators to Pets,” which opens Friday.
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 Field Museum in Chicago just unveiled a new specimen of one of the most important fossils ever: Archaeopteryx. It lived around 150 million years ago, and this species is famous for marking the ...