Field Museum

A little bit of extra luck this #FossilFriday the 13th, courtesy of SUE’s wishbone. 🦴 ✨ Thanks to decades of study and research, we made some important scientific updates to our fierce fossil in 2018, including the placement of the skeleton’s furcula, or wishbone. 🦃 This better informed SUE’s shoulder blade positioning, which led to slightly lower arms. 🔍 Learn more about the other updates we made to our apex predator. 🦖 bit.ly/BiggerBetterSUE

Our summer interns may have returned to their studies or embarked on new adventures, but their creativity and dedication have left their mark on the Museum! 💙 Take a look at just a few of the projects they highlighted at our Intern Poster Presentation last month. ⬇️

TFW those Sunday Scaries set in. 😳 Tarsiers are palm-sized primates found in the forests of the Philippines and Indonesia. 🌿 These mini mammals may look panicked by the thought of many unopened emails, but their large, fixed eyes are actually adaptations that help them see better in the dark. 👀 To help process all of the information tarsiers' wide eyes take in, their small brains have a HUGE visual cortex. 🧠

FREE VIRTUAL SEMINAR: This Wednesday, September 11, we welcome Dr. Dave Lunt of Southern Utah University. 👏 He'll present "The Crown Games of Ancient Greece: Olympics, Athletes, and Panhellenic Contests." Register. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gBp4FmqP

Educators: join us for a two-part, FREE hands-on workshop for instructors interested in After School Science Club Programming! 🧬 Register now. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gm9UPq_m 🗓 Saturday, September 14 🏛 In-person 📚 1 parking validation 📚 Continental breakfast and lunch 📚 Science Club curriculum and materials 📚 4.5 CPDUs 🗓 Date TBD 💻 Virtual 📚 1A partnership with a Field Trip Liaison to arrange a student 'Meet & Greet' Opportunity with a Field Museum Scientist and/or expert  📚 Troubleshooting support and guidance throughout their club implementation.  📚 1.5 CPDUs

Summer's over, school's here. 🎣 Tag yourself ⬇️ 😳 Stunned short fish (where'd all of my PTO go?!) ⚡️ Torpedo ray (recharged and ready to go) ☀️ Moorish idol (dressed in denial and warm weather fits) 🤡 Blue-striped wrasse (counting down the days till spooky season) 🎨: John Stevenson Bushnan, "Fishes: Particularly Their Structure and Economical Uses, Naturalist's Library" (1843)

Join us Saturday, October 19 for our annual fundraising celebration. 🎉 Honor the Field Museum’s enduring legacy and evolving future, as well as exceptional partners in our community — including Corporate Philanthropy Award recipient Abbott, represented by Chairman and CEO Robert Ford. 💙 Learn more. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gHagWGZr

Nobody will remember: - Your salary  - How “busy you were”  - How many hours you worked People will remember: - The lobe-finned reason work exists When you're commuting, say thanks (?) to the fish that's given vertebrates 375 million years of land-bound drama and full OOO inboxes. 😭 Tiktaalik's limb-like fins helped the fish venture onto land during the Devonian Period. It's a key transitional fossil that shows ancient fishes' evolution into land animals (like you). 🐟 ➡️🚶 Remember to tell this replica how much you LOVE "looping back" the next time you visit SUE the T. rex. 😉 🦖

Educators: In search of interactive natural history activities for your students? 👀 Check out SUE the T. rex Virtual Tour for Classrooms! Our Learning Team will use a 3D model to guide students (5+ years) through this famous fossil’s history and T. rex-ellent trivia. 📚🦖 Register. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gw4v4e-T

Monarch butterflies are super-commuting, pollinating pros — and they need our help. 🦋 Lead Conservation Ecologist Aster Hasle explains how residents in Chicago and beyond can help protect these incredible insects and their international migrations. 💙 (TL;DR: plant milkweed, milkweed, milkweed!) Learn more via Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gukbz9f9 📸: Mark Rogovin