05/06/2024
NOW LANDING: the Field's newest fossil, a dino AND bird named Archaeopteryx. 🦖 🦅
Archaeopteryx is one of the rarest and most important fossils of all time: its tiny teeth, delicate feather impressions, and sharp claws are 150-million-year-old evidence that dinos evolved in the birds surrounding us today. 🪶
The Field’s Archaeopteryx is the 13th known-to-science specimen, and 1 of 2 on display in North America. 🤩
Learn more about our Jurassic bird, on display May 7. ➡️ https://fieldmuseum.io/Archaeopteryx
📸: Delaney Drummond
👏 Acquisition of the Chicago Archaeopteryx was made possible through the generosity of the Walter Family Foundation and a challenge grant from an anonymous donor.
Additional support is provided by:
Diana and David Moore; Jessica and Steve Sarowitz; Nicholas J. Pritzker; Lauer Foundation for Paleontology, Science and Education, Bruce Lauer and René Lauer; Marshall B. Front Family Charitable Foundation/Laura De Ferrari and Marshall B. Front
Corporate funding provided by Arc’teryx Chicago