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<h2 class="0">Illinois Homeschool Group Registation</h2>

<div class="0">To book an Illinois homeschool group visit, please fill out the following form. If your school is located outside Illinois, please see our<span>&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.fieldmuseum.org/group-visits">Group Sales</a><span>&nbsp;</span>page.<br /><br />Please note that your trip must be booked at least 14 days in advance.</div>


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Left: A reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti, eating a fern. Illustration by Hannah Fredd. Right: Arjan Mann with a 3D-printed replica of Tyrannoroter’s skull in the Carboniferous coal forest display at Chicago’s Field Museum. © Field Museum.

Football-sized fossil creature may have been one of the first land animals to eat its veggies

A life reconstruction of Archaeopteryx, including the oral papillae on the roof of its mouth, a bill-tip organ at the end of its beak, and a flexible-yet-sturdy tongue made possible by an extra tongue bone. Illustration by Ville Sinkkonen.

The earliest known bird had complex tongue bones and fleshy “teeth” on the roof of its mouth—which might have helped it snag the food it needed for flight

White - eared Sibia (Heterophasia auricularis) visiting the shorter and wider flowers of Aeschynanthus acuminatus in Xitou, central Taiwan. Pollen deposited during the visit is visible on the Sibia's forehead. Photo by Jing - Yi Lu

This flower evolved a new shape so that different birds could pollinate it. Then, it spread.