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    Article
    Remaking Akeley's Striped Hyenas Diorama
  • North entrance to the Field Museum
    Article
    3 Questions with a Scientist: Hopping Rats
  • 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.
    Article
    Bushman the Gorilla
  • A mouse perched on sticks surrounded by dried brown leaves.
    Article
    Sperm Can Confirm that Lookalike Mice Are Different Species
  • North entrance to the Field Museum
    Video
    Inside the Whale Warehouse
  • Black-and-white nighttime photo of a jaguar walking in the forest. Its eyes are illuminated by the camera flash.
    Article
    The Jaguar and Its Grandchildren
  • Looking down on a man holding a pipette and applying a liquid to a fossil dicynodont skull that is still partially buried in the ground.
    Article
    Fossils in Zambia Are a Window into Extinction
  • North entrance to the Field Museum
    Video
    Skunk Dissection
  • North entrance to the Field Museum
    Video
    Painting the CARACAL
  • Two women wearing headlamps peer into the mouth of a large taxidermy elephant
    Article
    Q&A with a Conservator on the Complex History of Ivory
  • 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.
    Article
    Tsavo Lions
  • Two taxidermied elephants on a platform in a museum hall. To the right, a woman sits on a chair pointing up at the elephants.
    Video
    The 'Sistine Chapel of Taxidermy'—Conserving Akeley's Elephants
  • A brown lemur sitting in a tree, staring ahead with wide eyes.
    Article
    Lemurs Are Weird Because Madagascar's Fruit Is Weird
  • A necklace made of beads and pointy teeth, resting on a wooden surface
    Article
    How to Save Giant Tropical Fruit Bats
  • Lifelike illustration of a a large brown rat on a tree branch, surrounded by green foliage.
    Article
    Tree-Dwelling Giant Rat Discovered in Solomon Islands
  • A man holding the upper jaw of a very large animal, with long pointed teeth. The man is kneeling on the floor in between two rows of shelves that hold other fossils
    Article
    Q&A with a Fossil Mammals Curator

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