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The #FieldMuseum is home to 4.5+ billion years of natural history (including @SUEtheTrex 🦖).
Chicago, IL
Joined April 2008
OPENING MAY 2026: special exhibition, Pokémon Fossil Museum!. Sign up for email updates ➡️
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In #UnseenOceans:. 🪼 Encounter glow-in-the-dark fish and plankton. 🪼 Pilot through the depths in an interactive submersible game. 🪼 Meet real-life seahorses, eels, and jellies up close. Plan your visit. 🌊
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Ready for the DEEPEST dive you've ever taken? . Explore the mysterious, rarely-seen world hidden beneath the waves in our new special exhibition, #UnseenOceans, opening on March 15. 🌊 🎨: © @AMNH
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Like most bird species in North America, roseate spoonbills don't mate for life, but they do stay with each other for the entire breeding season. 💗
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Male roseate spoonbills are known to bob their head and shake nearby twigs to gain a female's attention. 🥰. Once they've successfully matched, males gather those shaken sticks and present them to their date to build a nest together. 🪺
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The practice of sending messages through flowers (aka floriography) gained popularity in 19th-century England and the United States. 🔎🌷. Floriography dictionaries were often sought to curate and decipher bouquets — only daffodils would symbolize “uncertainty.” 🙃
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me: what should I get my situationship for v day?. 19th century floriography dictionary: daffodils.
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This dung was deposited millions of years ago in Wyoming's Green River Formation. Thankfully, smell isn't preserved over time… 🤢
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Fossilized feces like these are known as coprolites. 🪨. Paleontologists study these important poops to learn about the diet and habitat of the animal that produced them. 🔍
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If you have a pet in your home that spends time outdoors, preventative heartworm medication is an important step in protecting them from getting seriously sick. 🐶
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Heartworms like these hitch a ride into mammals through the help of another bloodsucker: mosquitoes. 🦟. These parasites are tiny larvae when they enter their host, but they’ll move towards the arteries around the heart grow to be the looonnnnggggg, dangerous adults seen here. 🪱
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⚠️ CLOSING SOON—special exhibition First Kings of Europe will end its reign on January 28! 👑. Travel back to 5,000 BCE and observe the rise to power of ancient Europe’s first kings and queens through tools, jewelry, rituals, and trade routes. ⚔️
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