Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet — Local services in Chicago

The Griffin Halls of Evolving Planet is my favorite exhibit in all of the Field Museum! These galleries cover the history of life of Earth in astonishing detail, from the origins of Earth, through the age of the dinosaurs, and concluding at the tragic present day sixth extinction. Additionally, this exhibit displays a plethora of well preserved, thoroughly unearthed fossils from every prehistoric era. Among some of the most fascinating fossilized specimens include an extensive collection of Cambrian Trilobites, Mazon Creek fossils, Sue the T. Rex, fish and reptile fossils from the Green River formation, and massive prehistoric mammals from the ice ages.

However, a thrilling expansion was recently made to Evolving Planet… an authentic, well preserved, masterfully unearthed Archaeopteryx!!! Named The Chicago Archaeopteryx, this is one of only 13 fossils of this extremely rare avian creature ever discovered, and this one is so well preserved that almost all of its body features are visible- skull, wings, backbones, talons (or claws), etc. Given the value and rarity of prehistoric birds such as this one, this may very well be the best and most stunning fossil that’s ever been put on display in the history of the Field Museum (even dethroning Sue the T. Rex)! The quality of the Field Museum’s Evolving Planet exhibit just vastly improved thanks to this small, but breathtaking, mind-blowing, awe-inspiring...

I love the field museum. And my favorite part is the evolving planet. It explains the evolution of live from the unicellular bodies until now days. It is amazing to see how the things has evolved from millions of years and that we as humans have a very low percentage of it. The other thing I liked this time was T-Rex exhibition which was amazing and fill of information and news and very...

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