#fieldmuseum — Public Fediverse posts
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Life size Quetzalcoatlus at Field Museum, Chicago
It was the largest flying creature ever to live.
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Lance Grande is a curator specializing in fossil fish at the Field Museum in Chicago. In his scientific memoir CURATORS: BEHIND THE SCENES OF NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS, he discusses his career: from being given a fossil when he was a junior, a gift that sent him into geology as a field, to graduate school in New York City during a time of sizzling dispute between evolutionary taxonomy and cladistics. (Cladistics eventually won out.) From there he was hired by the Field, where he spent his career until retirement. He went on field expeditions, travelled abroad to search museum collections, and became head of the Collections & Research department.
Grande has a lot of good stories: the Field, and by extension Grande, got entangled in the lawsuits over the T. rex skeleton Sue. He has lots of great stories about incidents on field expeditions, both unexpected finds and narrowly avoided hazards, and also stories while in management, where he discusses the ethics of collections of human remains and leads a spectacular redesign of the museum's hall of gemstones. It's a really interesting collection of personal stories.
Also, I have to commend the publisher on ending each chapter with colour photographs and illustrations related to the chapter's topic. It's a much better editorial decision than having a ruthlessly cut-down selection of illustrations in a single glossy signature in the middle of the book; more books should do this!
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 🦖👃 T. rex breath likely smelled like rotting meat, thanks to bits of prey getting stuck between its widely spaced #teeth.
To create an exhibit at #Chicago’s #FieldMuseum, developer Ben Miller used a synthetic corpse smell originally designed for training disaster response #dogs.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/t-rex-breath/
#tyrannosaurus #trex #dinosaurs #paleontology #cretaceous #indianapolis #children #museum #fossils #science #kids #northamerica
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Animals, animals, everywhere! That's the #FieldMuseum in Chicago.
I had the opportunity to visit recently and was both impressed and overwhelmed. So much to see!
https://maryewarner.com/2026/04/27/the-field-museum-has-all-the-animals/
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#Anthropology Department loans hundreds of objects to other institutions so that they can study them, or display them in their own museums. Here #FieldMuseum Antlaropology stuff prepare a cradle board for loan to anotiser musisom
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#communityscience, #scistarter, #ScienceForEveryone #OpenScienceForAll #EveryoneCanDoScience #globaltcn, #fieldmuseum, #zooniverse -
Digital records help monitor changes over time—such as shifts caused by climate change, habitat loss, or invasive species. This is critical for studying patterns in Climate Change and predicting future impacts. #wedigbio #biodiversity #communityscientist #naturalhistory #science #scienceforall #scistarter #scienceforeveryone #fieldmuseum
@iDigBio @SciStarter
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Block your calendars! #WeDigBio April 9th through the 12th, 2026 is just under 2 weeks away! Mobilize 1000's of biodiversity data records! Register your event or find where to participate #communityscience, #scistarter, #ScienceForEveryone #OpenScienceForAll #EveryoneCanDoScience #globaltcn, #scistarter, #fieldmuseum, #zooniverse
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The office last night.
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Coming next year to Chicago Field Museum: A special traveling exhibit of #Pokémon models side by side with extinct lifeforms from the #FieldMuseum’s collection—including scientific casts of Field Museum dinosaurs like SUE the T. rex and the Chicago Archaeopteryx next to Fossil Pokémon like Tyrantrum and Archeops.
(Click on circles to explore in 3D)
https://my.matterport.com/show?play=1&lang=en-US&m=P9WCbyCBGBM
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"My name is Sue, how do you do?"
Today's Flickr photo with the most hits- the famous Tyrannosaur in the Field Museum, Chicago.
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Embroidery, the original #PixelArt from the end of the Qing Dynasty of 120 years ago! - As seen at the Chicago #FieldMuseum.
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started a new #Wikipedia article on Helen C. Gunsaulus (1886-1954), curator of Japanese art and objects at the Field Museum (1919-1925) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1926-1943): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_C._Gunsaulus @wikiwomeninred @wikiasianmonth #FieldMuseum #JapaneseArt #Chicago #ukiyoe #arthistory
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James Simpson Theatre, Field Museum, Chicago, Illinois, c1920s - Field Museum Postcard
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I always enjoy coming back to the Field Museum to do traditional art! It feels a bit like spending time with an old friend - it doesn't matter how long it's been, I know I'll have an engaging and enjoyable time. It's a chance to play with new techniques and ideas.
The focus for this piece was to prioritize value over color, to loosen up a bit, and ultimately to have fun!
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1/2 • Как Филдовский музей исполняет новые правила по отношению к предметам культуры первичных и коренных народов, в шести примерах: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/arts/design/native-displays-museums-law.html ⦾ Четвёртый пример самый смешной (?): если бы маска Нуксалка принадлежала какому-нибудь народу, который имеет представительство в Соединённых Штатах... #museums #Nuxalk #Nuxalkart #Nuxalkmasks #masks #policy #nativearts #indigenousart #FieldMuseum #Chicago #creakingdecolonisation
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Anyone who is in #Kiel and interested in the culture of the #Zapotecs, #Mixtecs or pre-colonial #Mexico in general should join us tomorrow for this public lecture: Gary M. Feinman from the #FieldMuseum (Chicago) will be talking about the latest research findings resulting from the analysis of obsidian finds: https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/cluster-roots/details/news/2024-02-13-jma-chair-lecture-feinman
#archaeology #ancientamericanstudies
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Wer in #Kiel ist und sich für die Kultur der #Zapoteken, #Mixteken oder generell das vorkoloniale #Mexiko interessiert, sollte sich diesen Termin merken: Morgen hält Gary M. Feinman vom #FieldMuseum in Chicago einen Vortrag über neueste Forschungsergebnisse, die sich aus der Analyse von Obsidian-Funden ergeben haben: https://www.uni-kiel.de/de/cluster-roots/detailansicht/news/2024-02-13-jma-chair-lecture-feinman
#Archäologie #Altamerikanistik
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Today's celebration of western North American #paleontology features #Fossil Butte, Wyoming and a few of the stunning finds made there on display at the #FieldMuseum.
(Don't forget to submit abstracts to our 'Paleontology in the West' session at GSA's Spokane meeting by Tuesday!)