You probably have a member of your family that you’re not related to by blood—a step-parent, an adopted cousin, your mom’s ...

On April 3, the Field Museum debuted Woolly Dogs, a temporary exhibition within Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories, ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient ...

In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...

A huge fireball lit up thousands of square miles of Northern Mexico and Southwestern United States after midnight on February 9, 1969. The Allende meteorite shower spread over more than 150 square ...

Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...

Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most energy and requires the most calories. That means that birds have had to ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly-preserved body doesn’t tell the whole story of how that ...

While going on an expedition to search for fossils may sound glamorous, it involves a lot of hard work—sometimes in pretty extreme environments. Of course, it’s very rewarding when you find something, ...

SUE the T. rex is an incredibly complete fossil, and Máximo the Titanosaur is a cast. Here’s why we have both. “Is that real?” This is a question we often hear from visitors as they roam the Field ...

See how many of these rocks and fossils you've spotted on the shore. Take a look at some of the more common rocks and fossils that can be spotted around the lake (particularly on the Michigan side).

In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...