Tag: Field Museum
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Throwback Thursday #155: Diary of a Snakebite Death
This is Throwback Thursday #155. 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! Ran across the interesting story of Karl Patterson Schmidt recently. Schmidt was a world renowned herpetologist and curator…
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Throwback Thursday #151: Looking Back at ESCONI for March 2023
This is Throwback Thursday #151. 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 – March 1998 50 Years Ago – March 1973 70 Years Ago – March 1953
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Throwback Thursday #146: Happy Birthday, Elmer Riggs!
This is Throwback Thursday #146. 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! Actually, it’s a few days late as his birthday was January 23rd, 1869. Elmer Riggs was an American…
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Video for the ESCONI December 2022 General Meeting – “The early diversification of birds: evidence from the Jehol avifauna”
December’s General Meeting was held on December 2nd, 2022. The presenter was Dr. Jingmai O’Connor Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles at the Field Museum. The topic of her talk was “The early diversification of birds: evidence from the Jehol avifauna”. She calls herself a paleontologista aka a punk rock paleontologist. Her research includes work on birds, dinosaurs,…
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Throwback Thursday #137: Archaeopteryx in Chicago!
This is Throwback Thursday #137. 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! October 1997 was a huge month for the Field Museum. The annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate…
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The early bird gets the fruit: Fossil provides earliest evidence of fruit-eating by any animal
The Field Museum has a press release about some recently published research about birds. Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles Jingmai O’Connor co-authored a paper called “Earliest evidence for fruit consumption and potential seed dispersal by birds”, which has been published in the journal eLife. The paper looks at an exquisitely preserved new skull of Jeholornis. Previously,…
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Throwback Thursday #116: Field Museum Photo Archives
This is Throwback Thursday #116. 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…
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Throwback Thursday #105: Looking Back at ESCONI for April 2022
This is Throwback Thursday #105. 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 1997 50 Years Ago – April 1972 70 Years Ago – April 1952…
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Throwback Thursday #93: Gorgeous George
This is Throwback Thursday #93. 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! Before there was SUE the T. rex, there was “Gorgeous George”. If you are old enough to remember…
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Throwback Thursday #86: Happy Thanksgiving!
This is Throwback Thursday #86. 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! For this Thanksgiving Edition of Throwback Thursday, we are only going back to 2016. That year, the Field…
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Throwback Thursday #68: Field Museum Photo Archive… Revisted
This is Throwback Thursday #68. 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! Back in Throwback Thursday #13, we visited the Field Museum Photo Archive blog over on Tumbler. There haven’t…
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Throwback Thursday #35: Holiday Party 2018 With Dr. Peter Makovicky
This is Throwback Thursday #35. 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 2018 Holiday Party featured Dr. Peter Makovicky then from the Field Museum speaking about the new Antarctic…
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Throwback Thursday #20: Rediscovering a Dinosaur Named Elmer
This is Throwback Thursday #20. 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 has a blog post about a dinosaur named for Elmer Riggs. Elmer the man, was…
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Throwback Thursday #13: Field Museum Photo Archives
This is Throwback Thursday #13. 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! I recently found a Field Museum Tumblr blog called “Field Museum Photo Archives”. It has many great photos…
