“The specimen is the first of its group to receive a detailed 3D reconstruction, which allowed us to look inside its skull and reveal its specialized teeth, helping us to trace the origin of ...

Qualified researchers can submit loan requests for meteorites from our collection The scientific staff at the Field Museum reviews all loan requests and decides on the basis of sample availability and ...

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The mission of the Field Museum of Natural History is to collect, study and document biological and cultural specimens, and to tell the world about these specimens and the studies based on them. The ...

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Join Eric in Evolving Planet and learn how to use a poem to speculate about our early hominid relatives.

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The D’Orbigny meteorite was found in July of 1979 when a farmer near Buenos Aires, Argentina hit the meteorite with his plow. The meteorite had a total mass of 16.55 kg and was nearly completely ...

The Museum Loan Network (MLN) facilitates the long-term loan of art and objects of cultural heritage among U.S. institutions as a way to enhance the installations of museums, thus enabling them to ...