Tag: Field Museum
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Throwback Thursday #282: Field Museum Postcard
I found this old Field Museum postcard at the recent ESCONI Rock Swap. It’s a photo of the coal forest in the Evolving Planet exhibit. This exhibit was originally in the Ernest R. Graham Hall in the Field Museum. The postcard is from the middle 20th century.
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Throwback Thursday #262: Time for Spring Cleaning at the Field Museum
This is Throwback Thursday #262. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! The Field Museum had a recent post about Spring Cleaning over on LinkedIn. 🪶 Feather dusting Akeley’s Fighting…
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Throwback Thursday #258: Field Museum in March 1920
This is Throwback Thursday #258. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. The Field Museum moved into its current home in March of 1920. In a recent post on…
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Throwback Thursday #253: Field Trip to the Field Museum in February 1971
This is Throwback Thursday #253. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com. ESCONI had a field trip to the Field Museum in February 1971. This announcement appeared in the…
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Throwback Monday #240: Happy Veterans Day from ESCONI… and the Field Museum!
This is Throwback Thursday #240. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! ——————————————————————————————- To celebrate Veterans Day, we are doing something different this week… How about a Throwback Monday and…
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Throwback Thursday #239: Looking Back at ESCONI for November 2024
This is Throwback Thursday #239. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! 25 Years Ago – November 1999 50 Years Ago – November 1974 70 Years Ago – November 1954
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Throwback Thursday #232: Sue visits SUE
This is Throwback Thursday #232. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! So, Sue Hendrickson had a secret visit with her beloved namesake SUE the T. rex in July. The…
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Throwback Thursday #224: Stephen J. Gould at the Field Museum
This is Throwback Thursday #224. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! This post originally appeared as Flashback Friday #17 back in the run-up to ESCONI’s 70th anniversary. On Thursday,…
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Throwback Thursday #223: Eugene Richardson – Fossil Localities Old and New
This is Throwback Thursday #223. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! ——————————————————————————————- Eugene Richardson, Jr. wrote a nice little article for the May 1952 edition of the Chicago Natural…
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Field Museum: Sixty-million-year-old grape seeds reveal how the death of the dinosaurs may have paved the way for grapes to spread
Lithouva – the earliest fossil grape from the Western Hemisphere, ~60 million years old from Colombia. Top figure shows fossil accompanied with CT scan reconstruction. Bottom shows artist reconstruction. Photos by Fabiany Herrera, art by Pollyanna von Knorring. The Field Museum scientists have been busy… first a giant salamander-like creature and now finely aged wine,…
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This Bigheaded Fossil Turned Up in a Place No One Expected to Find It
Left: Artist’s rendering of Gaiasia jennyae. Credit: Gabriel Lio. Right: Skeleton, including the skull and backbone, of Gaiasia jennyae. Credit: C. Marsicano. The New York Times has a story about a new stem tetrapod. Gaiasia jennyae lived 280 million years ago, which is about 40 million years before the evolution of the dinosaurs. It lived…
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Mazon Monday #222: Violetta Whitfield’s Insects
This is Mazon Monday post #222. What’s your favorite Mazon Creek fossil? Tell us at email:esconi.info@gmail.com. Robert and Violetta Wihitfield collected fossils with George Langford (Mazon Monday #220) in the 1940s and 1950s. Langford curated the Mazon Creek fossils he donated to the Field Museum, working there from 1948 until 1961. Both Robert and Violetta…
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Fossil Friday #218: Rhabdoderma elegans from the Field Museum
This is the “Fossil Friday” post #218. Expect this to be a somewhat regular feature of the website. We will post any fossil pictures you send in to esconi.info@gmail.com. Please include a short description or story. Check the #FossilFriday Twitter hash tag for contributions from around the world! Rhabdoderma elegans was described by John Strong…
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Field Museum – Dinopalooza Returns! Saturday, June 8 | 10am-2pm
The Field Museum is holding Dinopalooza today from 10 AM to 2 PM. Dinopalooza is today! Join us in celebrating the newest member of our flock, the Chicago Archaeopteryx, before it takes off for the rest of the summer. Find out how our new fossil friend shows scientists where past and present collide and understand…
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What prehistoric creatures roamed Chicago?
WBEZ Chicago muses about “what prehistory creatures roamed Chicago”… No dinosaur, at least not non-avian dinosaurs, but many other wondrous plants and animals! A group of third and fourth graders from Urban Prairie Waldorf School in the city’s Pilsen neighborhood asked Curious City if dinosaurs ever walked in Chicago. The unsatisfying answer: we don’t know for sure.…
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More on the Chicago Archaeopteryx
More about the new Chicago Archaeopteryx, This is the unveiling which happened on May 7th, 2024. It includes a great video of Paleornithologist Jingmai O’Connor describing the animal and its acquisition. More links…
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Field Museum: The Chicago Archaeopteryx!
The Field Museum is debuting its latest blockbuster specimen, the Chicago Archaeopteryx! With its first appearance in the Jurassic period 151 million years ago, Archaeopteryx is immensely significant due to it being the first “missing link” or transitional fossil that supported the Theory of Evolution. This small fossil also forged the link connecting dinosaurs and…
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Throwback Thursday #206: Field Museum’s Apatosaurus
This is Throwback Thursday #206. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! If you visit the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, chances are you’ll venture up to the…
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The hidden rule for flight feathers and how it could reveal which dinosaurs could fly
Phys.org has a story about flying dinosaurs. A new paper in the journal PNAS looked at hundreds of feathers in museum collections to determine which feather characteristics were common to flying birds. These characteristics were then used to create “rules”, which when applied to fossil dinosaur feathers might predict which dinosaurs were able to fly. …
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Throwback Thursday #200: Field Museum – Terror Birds
This is Throwback Thursday #200. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Terror Birds, phorusrhacids, were large carnivorous flightless birds, that lived until a few million years ago. They are…
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Throwback Thursday #196: Field Museum Photos – Columbian Museum of Chicago
This is Throwback Thursday #196. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Today, we look back at the Columbian Museum of Chicago, which is now called the Field Museum. It…
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Throwback Thursday #180: Field Museum Photo Archives
This is Throwback Thursday #180. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! ——————————————————————————————- More photos from the Field Museum Photo Archive on Tumblr. This time views in/of/from the museum back…
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Introducing, Sobek the Spinosaurus
The new Spinosaur at the Field Museum has a name… Sobek! Over the last two weeks, more than 30,000 votes were cast to choose a name for Spinosaurus. We are excited to introduce Sobek the Spinosaurus to the Field Museum! Sobek is the name of an ancient Egyptian god with the head of a crocodile, inspired by the crocodile-like jaws…
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Throwback Thursday #172: Field Museum Photo Archives – Soemmerring’s Gazelle
This is Throwback Thursday #172. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here’s a few photos from the Field Museum Photo Archives over on Tumbler. Unfortunately, the photo blog hasn’t updated since…
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LET’S NAME OUR NEW SPINOSAURUS!
The Field Museum sent a message that they need help picking a name for their new Spinosaur. Cast your vote today! Spinosaurus is here, now we need a name! This cast is a replica of a fish-eating dinosaur that lived during the Cretaceous Period, about 95 million years ago. It spent much of its time in…
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Throwback Thursday #164: Looking Back At ESCONI for June 2023
This is Throwback Thursday #164. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! 25 Years Ago – June 1998 50 Years Ago – June 1973 70 Years Ago – June 1953
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Throwback Thursday #160: Hey, Field Museum… Happy 102nd Birthday!
This is Throwback Thursday #160. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! On May 2nd, 1921, the Field Museum opened its doors to the public at its current home. Happy…
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Throwback Thursday #159: Field Museum Photo Archives
This is Throwback Thursday #159. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here’s a few photos from the Field Museum Photo Archives over on Tumbler. Unfortunately, the photo blog hasn’t updated…
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Throwback Thursday #157: Self-supporting Dinosaur
This is Throwback Thursday #157. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! Here is a poem written by Eugene Richardson Jr, about “Gorgeous George”, the Field Museum’s Daspletosaurus. We posted…
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Throwback Thursday #156: Looking Back at ESCONI for April 2023
This is Throwback Thursday #156. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! 25 Years Ago – April 1998 50 Years Ago – April 1973 70 Years Ago – April 1953
