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

Carl Akeley’s winter scene from the iconic diorama, Four Seasons of the White-tailed Deer

Must-See Selfie Spots other than SUE

A man wearing a white lab coat uses a paintbrush to touch up the teeth of a Daspletosaurus dinosaur skeleton.

Before SUE the T. rex, there was ‘Gorgeous George’

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Before SUE the T. rex, there was ‘Gorgeous George'

Left: A mounted T. rex skeleton inside a museum gallery. Right: A long-necked titanosaur skeleton in a large classical hall.

Which Dinosaur Bones Are “Real”?

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Media for Press Release: New Field Museum Exhibit Featuring Poems for Popular Attractions Debuts  During National Poetry Month

Making Máximo the Titanosaur

Side-by-side graphic of SUE the T. rex, showing before and after changes. The areas that have been moved or changed are highlighted in gray.

A Fresh Science Makeover for SUE

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Compare how SUE's shape and pose changed from 2000 (left) to 2018 (right).

Close-up view of brown tail vertebrae that curve around. They're positioned on a white cushion.

Rediscovering a Dinosaur Named Elmer

The dinosaur's eight-foot-long tail is nearly complete.

View looking up of a long-necked dinosaur skeleton in the museum's main hall. Its head peeks over the second floor balcony.

Putting the “Titan” in Titanosaur

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In a 1922 Charles Knight mural, a group of Protoceratops gather on a sandy hill, one watching over a clutch of eggs, while two stand nearby. Another in the background eats leaves from a small tree.

Photo Archives - Charles Knight Paintings Gallery

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Protoceratops, Mesozoic era. Primitive ceratopsian dinosaur with eggs, found in the Gobi desert of Mongolia, 1922. ID# CK10T

Paleoart: Painting the Land Before Time

A large dinosaur skeleton standing on a brown surface and leaning forward menacingly, in a museum gallery

Meet SUE’s New Neighbors in the Hall of Dinosaurs

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Find Daspletosaurus in Evolving Planet.

Meet SUE's Neighbors in the Hall of Dinosaurs

Illustration of a large, long-necked dinosaur on a tropical beach

New Titanosaur on the Map, Mansourasaurus

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Image credit: Andrew McAfee, Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Caihong juji. Illustration: Velizar Simeonovski

This Rainbow Dinosaur Had Iridescent Feathers

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Caihong juji

Rendering of the interior of a large, white classical building with large green gardens hanging from the ceiling

Return to the Age of the Dinosaurs

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Two human scientists fiddling with my gastralia.

From T. rex to Titanosaur, Big Dinosaur Changes

Two photos side-by-side: A women sitting in front of a large drill, and a bowl with a gold bracket attached to it, for display

What's in a Name? That Which We Call a Dinosaur

A tray filled with elongated eggs that are white, cream and brown in color

Before the Chicken, There Was the (Dinosaur) Egg

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Oviraptor eggs (a carnivorous dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Mongolia)

Illustration of prehistoric animals in a wetland area, with a crocodile-like animal in the foreground

Early Dinosaur "Cousin" Surprisingly Crocodile-Like

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Life reconstruction of Teleocrater rhadinus feasting on a deep relative of mammals, Cynognathus. The large dicynodont Dolichuranus is seen in the background. Credit: Natural History Museum, London, artwork by Mark Witton.

Black and white dinosaur skeleton, with an inset of its small arm and hand

Image modified from Krause et al., 2007), and the inset showcasing a 3D model of the oddly reduced forelimb (image modified from Burch and Carrano, 2012.

Let's Lend These Dinosaurs a Hand

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A woman holding an electric hand tool and a painter's brush, leaning over a large mass of dirt with bones protruding from it

Women in Science: Akiko Shinya, Fossil Preparator

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A large T. rex skeleton on display in a museum, with people looking at it and columns in the background

Tyrannosaur Relatives of SUE

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Three dinosaur skeletons with different horns on their heads, lined up in an exhibition

How Did Dinosaurs Woo Their Mates?

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Media

2016 By The Numbers

Monster Mystery Solved

Tully Monster reconstruction by Sean McMahon

Top 10 Science, Nature, and Culture Stories of 2016

T. rex Arms & BEARDOGS! | Natural News | Ep. 6

Two large dinosaurs, one wearing a Cubs jersey

Why We Don’t Dress Up SUE (Or Any Other Real Skeletons)

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Why We Don't Dress Up SUE (Or Any Other Real Skeletons)

Eight of the Most Nightmarish Prehistoric Animals

The Field Museum

Fossil Hunting 101

SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex’s Arm for Argonne Study

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Fossil skeleton of SUE the T. rex

SUE Lends a Hand: Field Museum Scientists Remove T. rex's Arm for Argonne Study

Dinosaur Discovery & Updates on Cloud Rats

SUE the T. rex

SUE the T.rex fossil skeleton

How well do you know SUE?

An artist's rendering of a small dinosaur being chased through a field by two larger dinosaurs, while two other small dinosaurs run away in the background.

Newly-discovered dinosaur had “T. rex arms” that evolved independently

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© Jorge González and Pablo Lara

Zoomed in photo of a fly-like insect trapped in orange amber

Revisiting “Jurassic Park”: Could Dinosaurs Really be Cloned?

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Field Museum specimen of an insect trapped in 40-million-year-old Baltic amber.

The First Brachiosaurus

Banding Baby Dinosaurs

SUE's Microbes go to Space

Siats meekerorum

Dominant Dinosaur That Lived Before T. rex Discovered

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Image for Dominant Dinosaur That Lived Before T. rex Discovered

From First Grade to the Field Museum: A Paleontologist's Research Comes Full Circle

Science at FMNH : Ep. 46 - Paleontology of Zambia

Science at FMNH : Ep. 45 - Equipment for a Paleontological Dig

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

Science at FMNH : Ep. 20 - Antarctic Fieldwork

Science at FMNH : Ep. 19 - Antarctic Paleontology

Making the skeletons dance

Photo Archives Geology Gallery

Collage of PR 1634, Whatcheeria deltae & PR 2081, Tyrannosaurus

Fossil Amphibians and Reptiles

McDonald's Fossil Preparation Lab

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Fossils & Meteorites

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Geology

Akiko Shinya

Jingmai O'Connor

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

The world’s largest predatory dinosaur, and a Dino Fest to celebrate it, are coming to the 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.