Grand Hall of the Field Museum |
Tyrannosaurus rex, "Sue" 90% complete skeleton |
"Sue" is 42 feet long and 13 feet high |
Cast of Tyrannosaurus rex skull |
Artist's impression of a Tyrannosaurus rex |
The original skull of "Sue", at 600 lbs, too heavy to mount with the rest of the bones |
Some of the 58 dagger-like teeth on the original skull of the T-Rex Sue |
Jaws of the Tyrannosaurus rex at the Field Museum |
Evolution Gallery, Field Museum |
Evolution Gallery, Field Museum |
Eryops, Permian period Texas (290-248 million years ago) |
Pareiasaurs, Permian period South Africa (290-248 million years ago) |
Epaphosaurids, Permian period Texas (290-248 million years ago) |
Epaphosaurids, Permian period Texas (290-248 million years ago) |
Sphenacodontids, Epaphosaurids, Permian period Texas (290-248 million years ago) |
Herrerasaurus |
Herrerasaurus |
Stegosaurus |
Rapetosaurus |
Sauropod |
Sauropod |
Evolution of Birds |
A pair of Jurassic period Sauropod skull casts, Camarasaurus and Brachiosaurus |
Daspletosaurus, Cretaceous Period, 144-65 Million Years ago |
Daspletosaurus, Cretaceous Period, 144-65 Million Years ago |
Daspletosaurus, Cretaceous Period, 144-65 Million Years ago |
Apatosaurus |
Theropod dinosaur skull, Cretaceous Period, 144-65 Million Years Ago |
Triceratops, Cretaceous Period, 144-65 Million Years Ago |
Triceratops, Cretaceous Period, 144-65 Million Years Ago |
Maiasaura |
Parasaurolophus |
Parasaurolophus |
Telecameras, an early rhinoceros from the Miocene Period, 23-5 Million Years Ago |
The Human Story Begins |
Model of an early Hominid |
Australopithecine hominid "Lucy" (cast) 5.3-1.8 Million Years Ago |
Homo neanderthalensis, 1.8 Million to 10,000 years ago |
Neanderthal Man |
One of the earliest known complete Homo sapiens skeleton |
"Magdalenian Woman", Dordogne, France - 15,000 years old |
Megatherium americanum, Giant Ground Sloth, Pleistocene Period Argentina |
Megatherium americanum, Giant Ground Sloth, Pleistocene Period Argentina |
Arctodus simus, Short-Faced Bear, Pleistocene Period |
Irish Deer and Wooly Mammoth |
Irish Deer, Megaloceros giganteus |
Mammuthus primigenius, Mammoth, extinct 10,000 years ago |
Mastodon, also extinct 10,000 years ago |