2+ hour, 28+ min ago  (239+ words) More fossils are coming to Chicago's popular Field Museum -- but there a bit different than the ones guests may expect. Starting Friday, the Pok'mon Fossil Museum Special Exhibition will make is North American debut at the Field, according to the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (541+ words) The fossil, Pohlsepia mazonensis, has long been the subject of scientific debate. A 300-million-year-old tentacled sea creature has lost its crown as the world's oldest octopus, after scientists found evidence that it's not an octopus at all. Newly published research…...

8+ mon, 1+ day ago  (368+ words) The fossil, which dates to 108 to 115 million years ago, is that of a juvenile from a previously unknown species that researchers are calling Zavacephale rinpoche. Very little is known about pachycephalosaurs, two-legged herbivores that lived in Asia and North America…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (323+ words) One of the "world's best fossil sites" is located just an hour outside of the Windy City, according to Chicago Field Museum researchers. Dr. Argan Mann, assistant curator of early tetrapods at the Field Museum, leads a lab dedicated to…...

11+ mon, 2+ day ago  (260+ words) This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum is turning up the heat - and the chills - with its new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U. S. The "Reptiles Alive" exhibit opens Friday, introducing Chicagoans to 20 live reptiles from…...