Tag: Field Museum
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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…
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Events this week: Mammoth Lecture, Mineralogy Meeting, Chicago Rocks Silent Auction
Waking the Baby Mammoth, lecture by Daniel Fischer, Paleontologist on Tuesday, March 9. Field Museum at 7:30 p.m., $24 – $30 ticket. Mineralogy & Micromount Study Group Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 13. College of Dupage, Building K, Rm 131. Topic of discussion: Radioactivity in Minerals. Geiger counter will be available. Bring in copper specimens…
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ESCONI Meetings This Friday and Saturday – Learn about Field Museum Meteorites & Split Geodes
Friday, January 8 – General Meeting. 8:00 p.m. Jim Holstein, of the Department of Geology at the Field Museum will be speaking on “The Field Museum’s Meteorite Collection.” Learn about meteorites, what they are, the different types, how they’re identified, and what we can learn from them. College of Dupage Building K, Room #131. Saturday, January…
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Field Museum Talk Tonight, Tues. 11/3
Hear about global health efforts w/NG photographer Karen Kasmauski on 11/3 7:30pm. Tix avail @ the door at the Field Museum.
