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For more than 80 years, the man-eating Tsavo lions have been one of the Field Museum 's top tourist draws. Now a study released Monday suggests the Tsavo lions' taste for human flesh may have been exaggerated. According to the man who finally caught them...
Tags: tsavo lions, Tsavo River, eating lions, Field Museum, Kenya
Parasite may have killed Sue, other T. rexes September 29, 2009 11:31 AM Sue, the biggest, meanest meat-eating dinosaur known to history, probably was killed not by some other monster killer battling with her 65 million years ago, but by a tiny one-celled...
Tags: throat infected, sore throat, tyrannosaurus rex, rex sue, Chicago, Field Museum
An ancient Egyptian bust at the Field Museum in Chicago is causing visitors to double-take at the similarities between the 3,000-year-old statue and the singer. An ancient Egyptian bust on display at the Field Museum in Chicago has been the focus of interest...
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The vistors to the field musuem would be suprised to see a 3000 year old egyptian bust similar to the face of great Popstar Micheal Jackson.The bust was actually been displayed in the museum from 1988. The bust was actually of a woman and may becarved...
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Chicago police shoot cougar" Examiner Reader said: The Chicago Police have a well-deserved reputation for being trigger-happy and thanks to the city's weird and wonderful curfew laws the Chicago Police Force is responsible for the largest number of shootings...
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Filled with equal parts romance and bloodthirstiness, stories about pirates have lit up the public imagination for centuries, but only one actual pirate ship with stolen booty intact has ever been found, and parts of it go on display Friday at the Field...
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Staff reporters The tanking stock market has hit the Field Museum's endowment, which has dropped about $95 million -- 30 percent -- leading to salary cuts, layoffs and buyout offers to scientists and other employees. While most of the planned upcoming...
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Staff Reporters Sue, Chicago's iconic T. rex, likely saw some pretty wild stuff 67 million years ago, but a Northwestern University grad school party at her Field Museum home was a real fright, too. Students of Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management...
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A five-year project has revolutionized scientific thought on the evolution of birds and the results are so surprising that now even the textbooks will have to be rewritten, a study said Thursday. "With this study, we learned two major things," said Sushma...
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