Tag: Field Museum
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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…
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Field Museum: It’s What I Do: An Evening with Renowned Photojournalist Lynsey Addario – Monday May 16th, 2016 at 5:30 PM
We are excited to announce that The Field Museum will host MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Lynsey Addario for a free public lecture to celebrate the opening of Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment. It’s What I Do: An Evening with Renowned Photojournalist Lynsey Addario Monday, May 16 | 5:30 pmJames Simpson Theatre Lynsey Addario has survived death threats…
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The “Tully Monster” is a vertebrate!
A new paper, co-authored by Paul Mayer of the Field Museum, in Nature sheds light on an age-old mystery. Tullymonstrum gregarium, commonly known as the Tully Monster, is the official state fossil of Illinois, designated in 1989. It’s a soft bodied animal found in the late Carboniferous Mazon Creek biota (approximately 309-307 million years…
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The FM’s Emily Grasle Meets a Pregnant Bat and the World’s Largest Spider
If you haven’t seen “The Brain Scoop” on youtube, head on over here and and check it out. In the latest show, she’s searching for bats and finds a huge spider in the Amazon. Emily is the Chief Curiosity Correspondent of the Field Museum in Chicago. Always an interesting show. They post new show pretty regularly…
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Field Museum – Biomechanics Exhibit
If you haven’t seen the Biomechanics Exhibit at the Field Museum, your time is running out. It closes on January 4th 2015. It’s a great display, very educational. It shows how we (and the diverse life around us) are biological machines. There are sections on teeth, bones, senses, flight, etc. It compares and contrasts the…
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Field Museum’s Podcast: What the Fish?
The Field Museum has a new podcast called What the Fish? “… 2.5 million specimens don’t collect themselves! The Field Museum’s Division of Fishes houses approximately 2.5 million specimens of fish, including whole specimens in alcohol, skeletal specimens, tissue samples, and cleared and stained material. That is a lot of fishes! But the fishes did not…
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Lecture Tonight: New Cretaceous Allosauroids by Peter Makoviky
General Meeting: 8:00 p.m. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 161. Peter Makoviky from the Field Museum of Natural History, speaking on “New Cretaceous Allosauroids from the Americas.”
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Event This Week: Ending 9/4/11
Friday, Sept 2 – Behind the Scenes Tour of Field Museum. 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. $74, includes entry to museum, class code – YEMS-0010-010. All ages. Sign up through College of Dupage’s web site or call Georgia Madden at (630) 942-2063. Less than 1% of the Field Museum’s specimens are actually on display –…
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Sign Up Today for Field Museum Tour
2 students shy of having enough to run class…. if you want to go, please register today! Friday, Sept 2 – Behind the Scenes Tour of Field Museum. 9:30 am to 2:30 pm. $74, includes entry to museum, class code – YEMS-0010-010. All ages. Sign up through College of Dupage’s web site or call Georgia…
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Field Museum Behind The Scenes Tour with Rob Sula
Rob Sula, our ESCONI Vice President, writes: Due to space, class size is limited so please contact Georgia Madden to sign up. You can call her at (630) 942-2063 or e-mail her at madden@cod.edu. Please do not contact me directly as I am leaving for my field season tomorrow morning and I won’t be back…
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Dr. Robert Martin Lecture Tonight – Friday, May 13
If you are interested in learning more about Dr. Martin, the Field Museum offers information… In the tree of life, human evolution is a very unusual case in many ways. If the focus of study is too narrow, it is difficult to avoid special pleading. My long-term research strategy has hence been rooted in the…
