The newest addition to the Field Museum on Chicago's lakefront will give visitors a glimpse of the largest predatory dinosaur yet discovered via a 46-foot (14.02 meter) cast of a Spinosaurus ...

CHICAGO (CBS) – The Field Museum wants to name a replica of a 46-foot long spinosaurus, the world's largest predatory dinosaur. And you can help name it. Workers at the museum installed the ...

Of all the animals ever to have roamed the planet, the iconic long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs known as sauropods stand unrivaled. No other terrestrial creatures have come close to attaining ...

July 18, 2023 — Scientists have described an unusual fossil from around 125 million years ago in China that shows a dramatic moment in time when a carnivorous mammal attacked a larger plant ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- Attention collectors, scientists, and anyone who gets geeked out by old mysteries: A fan favorite at the Field Museum is returning after a four-year break. It's ID Day at the ...

Sep. 20, 2023 — A groundbreaking study is reshaping our understanding of crocodile evolution by pinpointing the onset of slow growth rates to the Late Triassic period, much earlier than the ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

If you’re looking for some fun this weekend you can stop by the Proctor Fairgrounds and take a step back in time — that is ...

Our knowledge of how extinct species looked is changing all the time, as is the art that depicts them. Known as palaeoart, the artform is linked closely to the latest scientific research on dinosaurs, ...

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