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 ...
One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The ...
Paleontologists from UChicago use CT scanning and software simulations to show how a 250-million-year-old mammal predecessor ...
The fossil was tiny— about the size of a modern sparrow— but it had features in common with a larger fossil bird called ...
After a career spent largely in the shadows, Field Museum ornithologist Dave Willard is enjoying a moment in the spotlight ...
One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an ...
In letters yesterday to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker, Trump’s Federal Transit Administrator Marc ...
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Newfound fossils in modern-day Ethiopia suggest that the mysterious foot belonged to a recently named species, Australopithecus deyiremeda. The finding could alter the story of human evolution ...
Paleontologists at Chicago's Field Museum have concluded that a cluster of stones lodged in the ancient bird's throat likely ...
Berlin’s Museum of Natural History is one of the world's most important research institutions. Home to an incredible ...