The Mazon Creek fossil biota has a new member... a vertebrate, which are rare. Jeanerpeton mazonensis, which means "Jean’s crawler from Mazon Creek", was named by two student-scientists from the Field Museum. The name honors their mothers, who are both named Jean.

Dos estudiantes ayudaron a identificar Jeanerpeton mazonensis, un anfibio fósil de 309 millones de años oculto durante décadas en un museo de Chicago.

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Eons (@eonsshow) PBS Eons posted this video a few days ago on Instagram. In making Life and Death on Pangea, not only did we get to tell the story of one of the most dramatic times in Earth's history, but we got visit places that were dreams come true for our natural-history-loving hearts! ⁠

This is "Gorgeous George", when he was on display in the main gallery in 1976. He and the Lambeosaurus were star attractions at the museum from 1956 to 1992. He was incorrectly called a Gorgosaurus for most of its “life”.  That was corrected in 1999 and he is now known as a Daspletosaurus, a rare species of tyrannosaur.  “George” originally hailed from Alberta, Canada and was found by none other than Barnum Brown of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).

The September 2026 General Meeting will be held on Friday, September 11th, 2026 at 8:00 PM via Zoom. Our presentation is by Franklin Duffy, PhD Student and Research Affiliate from The Field Museum and Denver Museum of Nature & Science. He will be presenting "Searching for Colorado’s Tiktaalik on the West Coast of Laurentia." This presentation is a spotlight on our fieldwork in the Late Devonian Parting Formation of Colorado and the transitional "fishapod" fossils that can be found there.

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The Field Museum is holding another special Museum After Hours event. This one is Thursday, August 20th, 2026. Hear ye, seekers of wonder, scholars of the arts, and revelers of science and sorcery— For one enchanted evening, the hallowed halls of the Field Museum will transform into a realm of myth, merriment, and discovery for a 21+ Renaissance-inspired celebration unlike any other.

Paul Mayer, Fossil Invertebrate Collection Manager at the Field Museum in Chicago, IL was on "Chicago Live" recently. He was answering questions about the Silurian Rocks exposed in Lake Michigan at Morgan Shoal along the southern shoreline.