The Field Museum

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<li><a href="//www.fieldmuseum.org/explore/krap">The Körös Regional Archaeological Project, Hungary</a></li>
<li><a href="//www.fieldmuseum.org/explore/diros">The Diros Project, Greece</a></li>
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Cultures of Europe and the Near East: Partnerships

Left: a spider-tailed horned viper. Photo by Omid Mozaffari. Right: XCT scan showing the normal bones inside the snake’s bizarre tail. Image courtesy of Sara Ruane and Stephanie Smith.

A fake spider at the tip of this snake’s tail helps it lure birds. Scientists got their first look inside the “spider.”

Left: the fossil feather preserved in dinosaur poop. (Credit: O’Connor et al.) Right: an illustration of a tyrannosaur preying on an ancient diving bird. (Credit: Andrey Atuchin)

A fossil feather preserved inside dinosaur poop could help explain why birds survived the mass extinction

Left: Slash’s groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, in New Guinea. Photo credit: Chris Austin. Right: Slash and Sara Ruane at the Field Museum, with Sara’s copy of Reptiles Magazine featuring Slash on the cover. Photo courtesy of Sara Ruane.