The famed Chicago-born actor and environmental activist is the inaugural recipient of the Transformative Conservation ...

Legendary actor Harrison Ford came back to his hometown of Chicago this week for an honor at a Field Museum gala. The ...

The Field Museum is one of Chicago’s most iconic attractions. With millions of specimens of the world’s wonders in its collections, from gems to mummies to dinosaurs, the museum is a destination for ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Fresh food for our nation's heroes, that's the mission behind farm to veteran. They've delivered hundreds of thousands of meals to vets in need and now they're gearing up for a big ...

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 ...

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Three stories above the Field Museum’s exhibits, rows and rows of taxidermied chipmunks filled a tray in the museum’s mammal archives. Pointing to two of the oldest critters, mammalogist Stephanie ...

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When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...