When this researcher first laid eyes on a fossil, she instantly realized it was a new dinosaur species that had likely died a ...

Every five years, a small group of biologists and environmentalists assemble in a large corner office in Springfield with long glass windows. Inside that room, they weigh in on the fate of every ...

CHICAGO -- Three stories above the Field Museum’s exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum’s mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- When the Lions of Tsavo first arrived at the Field Museum of Natural History 100 years ago, they had been made into rugs. But taxidermists transformed them into the lifelike display ...

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...

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One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The ...

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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 ...

Paleontologists from UChicago use CT scanning and software simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor ...

What happened on Earth after the dinosaurs died? Humans could learn a thing or two from the tiny creatures that survived and evolved after an asteroid wiped out most of the life on Earth more than 66 ...

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 ...