Darkling Beetles: Spray acid, play dead

The Field Museum

Venoms vs. Poisons

A bright red frog with blue legs perches on a wide green leaf that has spikes along its edges.

3 Questions with a Scientist: Poison Frogs

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3 Questions with a Scientist: Hopping Rats

3 Questions with a Scientist: Baby Sharks

The Egg Collection!

Two young girls look up at a taxidermied gorilla in a glass display case. The gorilla’s head is angled such that it appears to be making eye contact with the children. A digital rail, a screen on a stand, is positioned in front of the case. In the background, large-scale photographs of objects are affixed to the wall.

Bushman the Gorilla

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A mouse perched on sticks surrounded by dried brown leaves.

Sperm Can Confirm that Lookalike Mice Are Different Species

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Illustration of a large, shell-less turtle with a rounded body and long tail, swimming underwater. The sea floor appears rocky, with some grasses.

This Turtle Had No Shell, but the First Toothless Beak

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Two women wearing headlamps peer into the mouth of a large taxidermy elephant

Q&A with a Conservator on the Complex History of Ivory

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Conservators Eugenie Milroy (left) and Stephanie Hornbeck examine the teeth and tusks of one of the Akeley elephants in the Field Museum's Stanley Field Hall

Four visitors stand together in front of two Lions of Tsavo dioramas. The leftmost visitor takes a picture of two lion skulls displayed on pedestals near the lions inside the diorama case.

Tsavo Lions

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Two photos, one of a black and white bird with a red head on a tree; one of a row of jars of museum specimens

What Woodpecker Brains Can Tell Us about Concussions

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Left: Downy Woodpecker, Arlene Koviol. Right: Field Museum wet specimens.

Close-up of a lion with a mane and a leather and metal collar around its neck

Giving Mammals Like Tsavo Lions Room to Roam

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A lion in Tsavo, Kenya, whose movements were tracked for this study

The 'Sistine Chapel of Taxidermy'—Conserving Akeley's Elephants

A necklace made of beads and pointy teeth, resting on a wooden surface

How to Save Giant Tropical Fruit Bats

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Flying fox teeth strung into a necklace and used as currency on the island of Makira.

Rows of bird specimens with yellow necks; half have gray stomachs and half have white bellies

What Hundred-Year-Old Birds Tell Us About the Environment

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A pinkish purple octopus with a large black eye sitting on the ocean floor, with arms curled

How To Tell Deep-Sea Octopuses Apart? Check Their Warts.

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Photo courtesy of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association.

A yellowed animal skull with large canine teeth, on a white surface and backdrop

What Makes a Man-Eater? Check the Teeth

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The skull of one of the Tsavo man-eating lions.

Woman sitting at a table in a lab, holding a marker and writing on something small

Women in Science and Art: Rebecca Banasiak, Mammals Collections Assistant and Preparator

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Numbering small skeletal specimens that will be installed into the main mammals collection.

Antlers: What's Their Function?

Left: Pieces of eggshell and small bones laid out in rows. Right: A young boy and an older woman carry live turkeys by the feet through a market.

Unearthing Evidence of Turkey Domestication 1,500 Years Ago

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Left: Turkey bones and eggshells from 1,500 years ago discovered in Oaxaca, Mexico. Right: A boy with domestic turkeys in Oaxaca. Both images 

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A tiny primate, the Goodman's mouse lemur, held in a person's hand.

Ridiculously Cute Mouse Lemurs Hold Key To Madagascar’s Past

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A Goodman’s mouse lemur, named for study co-author Steve Goodman, was one of the species studied. The lemur’s scientific name is Microcebus lehilahytsara—“lehilahytsara” is Malagasy for “good man,” after Steve. , Zoo Zurich

Ridiculously Cute Mouse Lemurs Hold Key To Madagascar's Past

An artist's rendering of a Purgatorius unio, a small prehistoric mammal resembling a squirrel.

Mammals began their takeover long before the death of the dinosaurs

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© Nobu Tamura

Seven Animal Moms Almost as Good as Yours

Beetles, Mites, Cockroaches Oh My! [Insect Collection Tour]

5 Behind-the-Scenes Specimens with Links to Darwin

The Birds and the Bees: Craziest Animal Mating Stories

Fire Frogs and Eel-like Amphibians

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“Fire Frogs” and Eel-like Amphibians

Tea Parties, Bird Barf, and Rat Skulls

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Peregrine Falcons Removed from IL Endangered List

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Defining the "Edges" of Life On Earth

In Search of Night Life

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How to Pin an Insect

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