In a new study published in Communications Biology, a team of researchers redescribe Palaeocampa anthrax as the first known nonmarine lobopodian, and the youngest ever discovered. The fossil, which ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has ...

In a twist worthy of a detective novel, a long-misidentified fossil at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) has emerged as a key discovery in ...

More than 300 million years ago, during the Carboniferous Period, much of northern Illinois outside Chicago—including what is ...

A dinosaur fossil has been found in an unlikely place, a hole drilled under the parking lot of a Colorado museum where ...

First discovered in the Mazon Creek fossil beds of Illinois in 1955, the Tully monster (or Tullimonstrum gregarium) has long ...

features the Bengals' QB talking about how "sick" the fossils were at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, which ...

This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum will open a new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U.S.

CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine ...

Twenty-five years ago, Sue the T. rex made its debut at the Field Museum, with more than 10,000 people coming to see the 67-million-year-old fossil that has become a Chicago icon. Saturday marked ...