This fossil is one of many that was found just 50 miles south of Chicago. Manuel Martinez/WBEZ Share Two stories down in the catacombs of the Field Museum of Natural History, Jack Wittry slides ...

CHICAGO — The Field Museum unveiled its acquisition Monday of a fossil showing the earliest known bird species — Archaeopteryx. Only a dozen other Archaeopteryx specimens have been found with ...

CHICAGO (CBS) — It's something out of Jurassic Park, except it's real. For the first time, a new fossil has just been uncovered. The Field Museum unveiled the new find on Monday. It's a small ...

Northern Illinois doesn’t have any dinosaurs, but while the fossil trade in Chicago’s backyard involves many fewer zeroes behind the dollar sign, it is alive and well. The Field Museum holds ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Much of the fossil trade is in cash ... chipped in to help Chicago's Field Museum buy a Tyrannosaurus rex known as Sue for a staggering 8.36 million dollars and put it on display for the world's ...

Jamie Gustafson draws dinosaurs, sharks and pretty much anything else from the natural world. Some of his clients have ...

Chicago’s Field Museum is home to plenty of fossils, but when the museum decided to enliven its representation of the Cretaceous period with elaborate, 3-D printed hanging gardens filled with ...

Accordingly, the LEGO Dinosaur Fossils: Tyrannosaurus Rex set is ... in keeping with the newly-mounted Sue display at the Field Museum in Chicago. The set comes in 25 sealed plastic bags.