Field Museum

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

🚨🎟 FREE ADMISSION opportunity for our special exhibition Bloodsuckers: #LegendsToLeeches! Participate in a blood drive at the Field on August 31, and you’ll receive basic admission and access to Bloodsuckers for yourself and 3 guests! Register now. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/gBnrCpzQ 👏 Special thanks to Bloodsuckers sponsor Abbott and their partner Versiti Blood Center of Illinois for organizing the blood drive. 

Happy Unearth Day, SUE! 🦖 It was 34 years ago today that Sue Hendrickson discovered the world’s most complete T. rex. ⚒ Approximately 250 of the 380 known bones in the Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton were unearthed, meaning our fierce fossil is 90% complete by bone volume. Researchers around the world have studied SUE to learn more about tyrannosaurs: how they lived and for how long; how fast they grew and how fast they moved—just for starters! This T. rex has also contributed to our understanding of theropods at huge body size, and how this carnivore fit into the North American Cretaceous ecosystem. Let's give it up for the world's oldest Leo 🎉✨

Teachers: can *we* take a field trip to your classroom? 🚌 🏛 Our Harris Learning Collection has over 400 mini dioramas, 60 experience boxes, and 1 replica T. rex skull ready for members to loan! 🦖 Find a piece of the Field to share with your students. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/grqGAWVb

Maybe tropical birds are born with structural color, maybe it was migration. 🐦 ✨ OR BOTH! Brightly-colored birds like these birds-of-paradise often live in the tropics—but did colorful feathers evolve in these warmer  regions, or did the colorful ancestors of these birds fly in from other places? 🤔 To find out, Field scientist Chad Eliason and his fellow researchers did a LOT of math: the team built a database of 9,409 species of birds and their coloration in videos, photos, and illustrations, and combined it with a pre-existing family tree of DNA to develop a modeling system to illustrate how these shimmering feathers spread across the globe. 🧬🌳 A surprising picture appeared: while colorful birds from outside tropical regions *did* flock there millions of years ago; all birds are descendants of one common, iridescent ancestor. 🤩 Read more via Popular Science. ➡️ https://lnkd.in/g2ZsS7k7