Your First Look at the Pokémon Fossil Museum in Chicago

Paleoartist Ted Rechlin chats onstage with Field Museum Dinosaur Curator Jingmai O’Connor, PhD, during a Q&A at the Field Museum’s first-ever Dino Fest on June 10.

Paleoartist Ted Rechlin Helps Bring Dinosaurs to Life

Two sculptures, created by French paleoartist Elisabeth Daynès, give a breathtakingly lifelike look at human relatives—Homo ergaster and Homo neanderthalensis.

Bringing Neanderthals to Life: Sculptures of Elisabeth Daynès

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Copyright ès — Reconstructions: Elisabeth Daynès Paris

The Field Museum

5 Behind-the-Scenes Specimens with Links to Darwin

Seeing Double: How The Field Museum Makes Fossil Casts

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Left: A pantodont fossil at The Field Museum (). Right: The pantodont cast made from Field Museum specimens (photo courtesy of the North Dakota Geologic Survey)

Fire Frogs and Eel-like Amphibians

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“Fire Frogs” and Eel-like Amphibians

“Scarface”: The Dachshund-sized Pre-mammal with a (Possibly) Venomous Bite

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Monsters Storm The Field

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A Sea Monster Named Jim

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 8: Finding Fossils from Space

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 9: Watch Where You Walk

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 5: Ex Libro Lapidum, Historia Mundi

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 6: Sharks Patrol These Waters

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 7: Nova Iorque, Nova Iorque

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 3: Permian Paleontology of the Parnaíba Basin

Brazil 2012 Fieldwork Diary Entry 4: Paleontology in Brazil: Meet the Team

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Science at FMNH : Ep. 46 - Paleontology of Zambia

Science at FMNH : Ep. 44 - African Paleontology

Fossils, Rocks, and Akiko

Science at FMNH : Ep. 39 - Digital Planet: Antarctica Showcase

Science at FMNH : Ep. 22 - Dinosaur Body Size and Environment

Science at FMNH : Ep. 21 - Polar Dinosaurs

Fossil Carrion Feeders

Science at FMNH : Ep. 20 - Antarctic Fieldwork

Science at FMNH : Ep. 19 - Antarctic Paleontology

Science at FMNH : Ep. 17 - Wyoming 52 million years ago

Science at FMNH : Ep. 15 - Trilobite Evolution

Science at FMNH : Ep. 13 - The Geologic Record & Environmental Change

Jingmai O'Connor

It turns out, this fossil plant is really a fossil baby turtle

UV light and CT scans helped scientists unlock hidden details in a perfectly-preserved fossil Archaeopteryx

Don’t judge a fossil by its teeth: despite its toothy beak, this ancient bird ate fruit, not fish

Predatory birds from the same fossil formation as SUE the T. rex

The hidden rule for flight feathers— and how it could reveal which dinosaurs could fly

Field Museum acquires fossil of Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird

Fossil named “Attenborough’s strange bird” was the first of its kind without teeth

Changing Face of Science exhibition highlights ‘Punk Rock Paleontologist’ at Field Museum

Field Museum Announces Vote to Name New Spinosaurus

Two young visitors reach down to touch the foot of Máximo, a cast of the largest dinosaur ever discovered. The foot is raised on a black platform and the two visitors learn forward to touch the front of the foot.

Máximo the Titanosaur

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SUE stands proudly in their suite located in the Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibition. An animated forest is visible in the background.

Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet & SUE the T. rex

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Once preparators complete their extractions, the finished fossils are examined and compared with related fossils, forming the data for a published study—the final step in the process.

McDonald’s Fossil Preparation Lab

Meet the Chicago Archaeopteryx

Itty Bitty Investigators: After the Age of Dinos Ages 5-6

Itty Bitty Investigators: After the Age of Dinos Ages 3-4

A group gathers at the corner of a diorama case. One man sits a desk with a typerwriter. He looks up to a family of three standing over him. The man in the middle stands with arms around the other two individuals. Both are smiling down at the man seated at the desk. A black box with a glass front holds a rock specimen and is propped up against the leg of the desk.