In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and ...

As a graduate student working out of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, evolutionary biologist Shane DuBay noticed ...

A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at natural history museums around the world. According to Shane DuBay, a ...

Description Join Trailside Museum of Natural History for a casual walk and take in the sights, sounds and scent of spring. Registration required. Event cost: Free Event time: 10:30 a.m. May 11, 2025 ...

Arjan Mann, a paleontologist at the Field Museum of Natural History who specializes in Mazon Creek fossils, is studying what he thinks might be a new species of salamander ancestor. This fossil is ...

The Field Museum’s unionized employees rallied Wednesday outside the storied natural history museum to speak out against what they called management’s anti-union retaliation and to demand a ...

The billionaire Kenneth C. Griffin, who bought the stegosaurus fossil for $44.6 million, is lending it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York for four years.

Scans of mummies at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History uncovered new details about how they were prepared for the afterlife and helped solve a baffling mystery.

Description Families can walk a short trail at Trailside Museum of Natural History, while reading “Thanks to the Animals” by Allen Sockabasin of the Passamaquoddy Nation. Make sure to pick up a craft ...

Archaeopteryx, one of only about a dozen such specimens ever found and the only one housed in a “major natural history museum in the Western Hemisphere,” according to the Field Museum, where ...