A baby bamboo shark born via artificial insemination. Credit: Photo by Jay Harvey, Aquarium of the Pacific It’s a tough time to be a shark.…
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Illustration showing how the three new species of fossil cloud rats might have looked. Credit: © Velizar Simeonovski, Field Museum Fluffy rodents twice the size…
Reindeer lichen. Credit: Marta Alonso-García Genetic analysis shows that reindeer lichens reproduce sexually as opposed to asexually more often than researchers thought. In northern Canada,…
The rediscovered volcano mouse, thought to be extinct. Credit: (c) Danny Balete, Field Museum A small mouse rediscovered on a volcano that erupted 30 years…
The ruins of the Roman Forum, once a site of a representational government. Credit: (c) Linda Nicholas, Field Museum All good things must come to…
By cutting into fossils and examining growth rings, scientists learned how predatory dinosaurs got so big. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the biggest meat-eating dinosaurs…
White sand ecosystem patch at the Reserva de Desenvolvimento Sustentável (RDS) do Uatumã, Central Amazonia. Credit: João Capurucho Birds travel across habitats patches to breed,…
Fireball meteorite illustration. On the night of January 16, 2018, a fireball meteor streaked across the sky over the Midwest and Ontario before landing on…
Nostrils located on the top of the snout and curved teeth, perfectly adapted for catching slippery prey: The skull of Tanystropheus has several clear adaptations…
An illustration of Calcaivis, an early relative of ostriches and cassowaries that lived 52 million years ago, showing its iridescent feathers. Credit: Velizar Simeonovski Cassowaries…
A mother fruit bat with her nursing pup. These fruit bats (Rousettus madagascariensis) from Ankarana in northern Madagascar are from a species that carries a…
We found Hipposideros caffer (Sundevall’s leaf-nosed bat) to consist of 8 distinct lineages; 3 of these (including this bat) appear to be new to science.…
A mating pair of Pseudopolydesmus millipedes, viewed under UV light so that the structures of their genitals would show up better. Credit: Stephanie Ware, Field…
This is a broad-billed Hummingbird with bright turquoise feathers. Credit: (c) John Bates, Field Museum Hummingbirds are some of the most brightly-colored things in the…
Dust-rich outflows of evolved stars similar to the pictured Egg Nebula are plausible sources of the large presolar silicon carbide grains found in meteorites like…
A Kenyan fruit bat, Epomophorus wahlbergi. Credit: Holly Lutz At a time when kombucha is commonplace on cafe menus and “probiotic-fortified” has become the newest…
This is an early mammal relative, Ophiacodon, whose still has a relatively simple, uniform backbone. Credit: Field Museum Mammals’ backbones are weird. Compared to other…
Crustose Ophioparma lichen. Credit: (c) Matthew P. Nelsen, Field Museum You’ve probably seen a lichen, even if you didn’t realize it. If you’ve ever meandered…
This is an illustration of the giant asteroid collision in outer space that produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth. Credit:…
A horseshoe bat that will likely be described as a new species in the next steps of this research. Credit: Jens Rydell There are way…