Tag: Field Museum
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Meteorite Grains Are the Oldest Known Solid Material on Earth
Smithsonian Magazine has an article about some very old dust. Even if you haven’t cleaned lately, it’s highly doubtful the dust around your home is as old as the dust described in a recent paper published in the journal PNAS. The lead author is a curator of meteorites at the Field Museum in Chicago, which…
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480-million-year-old fossils reveal sea lilies’ ancient roots
Phys.org has a story about the origin of crinoids. Tom Guensburg, research associate at the Field Museum in Chicago, is the lead author of a paper in the Journal of Paleontology, that describes Athenacrinus browneri. This new fossil shows evidence that is key to how sea lilies evolved from the earliest known echinoderms, which lived…
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WTTW: Field Museum’s New Meteorite Contains Stardust That Predates the Solar System
WTTW News has a piece about a new meteorite at the Field Museum. The new specimen is a 4-pound chunk of a meteorite that crashed into a Costa Rican village earlier this year. The chunk was purchased by frequent donor Terry Boudreaux, a retired health care executive. The unimpressive looking rock is a rare…
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NBC5: Smell Sue the T. Rex’s Breath at New Field Museum Exhibit
NBC5 has a segment on some new features in SUE exhibit at the Field Museum. You can feel her skin, hear her rumble, even smell her breath… it’s a whole day in the life of a T-rex! What did Sue the T. Rex’s breath smell like back in the day (i.e. the late Cretaceous Period)?…
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Field Museum 6th Annual ID Day – Saturday, September 14, 10AM–2PM
On Saturday, September 14th, 2019, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM, join our annual ID Day at the Field Museum—free for Illinois residents. Bring in remnants of the natural world—including clean, dry bones, fossils, rocks, seashells, and photographs of the natural world—to be identified by the Field’s scientists. This year, ID Day will also include a…
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The Brain Scoop: Recommended Reading: 2019!
The Brain Scoop has an episode which highlights some good books. So, if you are looking to read something interesting and science related, these are some really good suggestions! Hi! I’m on the road filming PREHISTORIC ROAD TRIP, a 3-part series that will premiere nationally on PBS in 2020! We’ll get back to our…
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ESCONI Flashback Friday #17: Stephen J. Gould at the Field Museum
As part of the run up to ESCONI’s 70th Anniversary, here is Flashback Friday post #17. If you have pictures or stories to contribute, please send them over to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! On Thursday, September 14, 2000. ESCONI co-sponsored a Steven J. Gould lecture with the Field Museum. This was a huge event for ESCONI, with…
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Take a historical sip back to the 1893 World Fair with the Field Museum’s new beer
The Chicago Sun Times has a story about the Field Museum’s new beer. Produced in a collaboration with Chicago Brewseum and Temperance Beer, “All the World is Here” is a new beer that is inspired by the World’s Columbian Exposition. The Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago in 1893. The Field Museum was founded on…
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PBS Announces a New, National WTTW Series, ‘Prehistoric Road Trip’
WTTW has a post which announces a new 3-part natural history series entitled “Prehistoric Road Trip”. The show is hosted by Emily Graslie, Chief Curiosity Correspondent at the Field Museum in Chicago. Emily is the host and creator of the popular YouTube series “The Brain Scoop“. The show will premier on PBS stations nationwide in…
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Carlton PhD Student: Filling in the Fossil Record
Carlton University in Ottawa, CA has a press release about the PhD student that has been involved in recently describing two new Mazon Creek vertebrates. Earlier this year, Diabloroter bolti (paper) and Infernovenator steenae (paper) were published. The research has been conducted by Arjan Mann, Jason D Pardo, and Hillary C Maddin of the Department…
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Palaeocast Episode 101: Organic Preservation of Dinosaur Bone
There’s a new episode of the Palaeocast podcast. It’s a discussion with Dr. Evan Saitta of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, who recently published a paper that investigates the controversial discoveries. Fossilisation of organic material was long thought to result in the complete loss of original content. However in the last 20…
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Field Museum: Meet Earth’s smallest superheroes!
The Field Museum has a new exhibit. It’s called “Fantastic Bug Encounters”. Everything you ever wanted to know about bugs. There’s very informative displays with bunches of specimens, spiders, insects, myriapods, and many less well known types. They have a live bug zoo, where you can pet a hissing cockroach or let a millipede crawl…
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The Onion: Field Museum Officials Announce Long-Awaited Pregnancy Of Prized T-Rex
TheOnion has an amusing story about SUE the T-rex. It seems that they have been trying to breed SUE for quite a while and now she’s pregnant! CHICAGO—Expressing their elation at the rare specimen’s successful mating, Field Museum officials announced the long-awaited pregnancy of Sue, the museum’s beloved T-rex, in a press conference Friday. “When…
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Help the Field Museum Win a Webby!
The Field Museum was nominated for a Webby Award, which honors the best work on the internet. Their Instagram account is up for the Best Social – Education & Discovery account. Vote for them to take home the gold in the People’s Voice award. You can only vote through April 18, so cast your vote…
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This Natural History Museum’s Most Underrated Collection Is Its Beer List
October has an interesting story about the Field Museum and its beer collection. Tooth & Claw from Off Color Brewing has been offered for a while. There’s currently PseudoSue and KingSue from the Toppling Goliath Brewery, with Dancing Dinos coming in April. A new exhibit at the Field Museum is called “Brewing Up Chicago” that…
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Quicks & Quarks: Tiny tyrannosaur fossil helps scientists understand how T-rex grew so large
CBC’s Quirks & Quarks has a segment about a tiny tyrannosaur that helps shed light on how T-rex grew so large. The animal, Moros intrepodus, was found by Dr. Lindsay Zanno. She’s head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and research professor at N.C. State University in Raleigh. You might remember…
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Field Museum: These New Fossil Discoveries Show Why Evolution is the Coolest
The Field Museum blog has a post about three recent fossil discoveries
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New Prehistoric Shark Species Discovered Alongside Sue the T. Rex Named for ESCONI’s Karen Nordquist
CREDIT: (C) VELIZAR SIMEONOVSKI, FIELD MUSEUM ESCONI member and past president Karen Nordquist was honored by having a shark named for her. The details are in this Smithsonian.com article. The freshwater shark Galagadon nordquistae lived alongside SUE the T. rex, about 67 million years ago. More information is in the press release from the AAAS.…
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SUE can’t wait to eat, er, meet you at their new suite starting 12.21.18
The Field Museum has a useful page for visiting SUE when the new exhibit opens on December 21st. First, a message straight from SUE: Staff have been working day and night to bring you the best holiday gift: ME. Because the world is wild with anticipation over my return, we expect a higher number of…
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SUE the T. rex, Chomping Back into Action 12.21.18
The wait is almost over, SUE the T. rex* will be back on display at the Field Museum, starting Friday, December 21. Plan your visit to see SUE’s new digs and experience the world’s biggest and most complete T. rex like never before. Step into the world of SUE and uncover what our scientists discovered about the life…
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Happy Birthday, Sue!
Sue the T-rex was discovered on August 12th, 1990 by Sue Hendrickson. She resides at the Field Museum in Chicago, IL. She’s the biggest, most complete, and oldest T-rex ever discovered. In Spring 2019, she will be unveiled in her new home. Don’t miss it!
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Do You Have BIG Plans for this Weekend? Maximo is at the Field Museum!
Máximo the Titanosaur is at the Field Museum this weekend! Come on out and check him out! Máximo the Titanosaur has arrived at the Field Museum from Patagonia and will be ready for his close-up this weekend. Bring your family and friends for a first look at this awe-inspiring sight in Stanley Field Hall as…
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Meet Maximo the Titanosaur!
The Field Museum has revealed the name of the new titanosaur that is being installed in Stanley Field Hall in the next few weeks. His scientific name is Patagotitan mayorum. He lived about 100 million years ago in what is now Patagonia, Argentina. The spanish word maximo translates to “maximum” or “most” in English. This…
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The dismantling of Sue
The Chicago Tribune has a story about the plans to dismantle at the Field Museum. The Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur, known as Sue, has been on display in the Field Museum’s Stanley Field Hall since 2000. She was discovered in 1990 in South Dakota by Sue Hendrickson. Beginning this week, she will be disassembled to make…
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Field Museum: A Thanksgiving Tale of Two Horns
The Field Museum has a blog post about ammonites and Thanksgiving. What do Thanksgiving and a fossil ammonite have in common? In ancient times, the Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans associated the coiled horns of rams with gods, power, virility, fertility, and abundance. The cornucopia—a conical wicker basket with a never-ending supply of food flowing from…
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Move over, Sue: World’s largest dinosaur taking center stage at Field Museum
The Chicagoist has a great story about changes at the Field Museum. Sue is moving to her own space up inside Evolving Planet, and a new cast of the largest dinosaur every discovered will be installed in Stanley Field Hall. The new dinosaur, Patagotitan mayorum, a titanosaur from South America, will be installed in the…
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Three Rivers Library Minooka Branch Hosting an Exhibition of Locally Found Pleistocene Mammal Fossils
The Three Rivers Library Minooka Branch is currently hosting an exhibition of Pleistocene mammal fossils found by a local farmer, John Bamford. in rural Minooka. The bones, found in 1901, were rescued from deterioration and oblivion by George Langford Sr. in 1912. The bones eventually were acquired by The Field Museum. The most famous of…
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The Field Museum’s Response to the Recent Tully Monster Paper
The Field Museum blog has a reply to the recent Tully Monster paper that disagreed with the determination of the Tully Monster as a vertebrate, which appeared in a couple papers published last year in Nature. Last year, two papers in the journal Nature sought to resolve what group of animals Tully Monster fossils belong…
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Field Museum: Meteorites! Opening January 26th, 2017
METEORITES! Official Opening Day: Thursday, January 26th! Come check it out at any time! Where do meteorites come from? What are they made of? What happens when they fall to Earth? This stunning new display at The Field Museum asks all of these questions and gives you a closer look at actual meteorites from…
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WTTW Jay’s Chicago: Carl Akeley, Taxidermy at the Field Museum
WTTW Jay’s Chicago has a nice clip about Carl Akeley. Carl has been called the “father of modern taxidermy.” He lived around the turn of the 19th century and is the man behind some of the Field Museum’s most famous exhibits, including one of the elephants in the main gallery. His innovation touch led to…
