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The #FieldMuseum is home to 4.5+ billion years of natural history (including @SUEtheTrex 🦖). Special exhibitions: #LegendsToLeeches 🩸 and #UnseenOceans 🌊

Chicago, IL
Joined April 2008
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
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nothing to see here
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The sound of @shedd_aquarium penguin feet is the joy you didn't know you needed. 🔈🐧
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@shedd_aquarium Museum Campus: now 1,000% more adorable. 😍
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what if we met under the Quetzalcoatlus
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don't have an answer—but is this an exception to the rule or does it reinforce it?
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why do animals look objectively cute when they do a head tilt pls science explain
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Too. Much. Coffee. 😳
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SUEprise! 🦖 A more "meaty" SUE is now on display in our main hall until August 17. 👀
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come on into the Field, the water's fine
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7 years
At The Field Museum, facts matter. See why, from our experts in geology, paleontology, human evolution, and climate change. #DayOfFacts
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@AnnyPopenny Our main hall looks different these days, but some things never change...
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BABE WAKE UP NEW FIELD DINO JUST DROPPED
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🦴✨💅
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clever SUE. 💙
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Hoping all your dreams come true this holiday season.
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6 years
"Thank you for visiting. The museum is now closed." #MusMeme
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2 years
Introducing our literal "Terror Bird." 😱
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DYK that Native American way of governing influenced the writers of our U.S. Constitution? Benjamin Franklin and others were in regular contact with the Iroquois Confederacy and invited Great Council leaders to address the Continental Congress in 1776.
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🎶 COMIN’ OUTTA MY CRATE AND I’VE BEEN DOIN’ JUST FINE 🎶
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@AMNH stand on your head and BAM—free blue check
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The @Cubs ' prehistoric fans are READY to cheer them on tonight in the playoffs! #FlyTheW #GoCubsGo #FossilFriday
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UPDATE: SUE learns birds are avian dinosaurs; demands we update the Museum map to "Hall of B̶i̶r̶d̶s̶ Tiny Theropods."
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Tiktaalik walked so you can scroll.
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"Take a ten minute break every hour to sit quietly and think about dinosaurs." - @SUEtheTrex
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yes or no: is 18-foot-tall Pterry scary?
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🌾🌿🪿 Holly 🪿🌿🌾
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actually if i could make any sort of video game it would be a cheap unity horror game where you're being stalked by this
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BOO.
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No blue check just means you have to come to visit our dinos and 150(?) research scientists to make sure they’re real.
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the only eXtinct bird that really matters
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6 years
"Costumes are permitted if they do not interfere with one's normal scope of work." #HappyHalloween
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🌊👋 hi, Sobek
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If you then you don’t don’t love deserve me at my me at my #MusMeme
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the fossilization wikiHow you've been waiting for. Step 1 ⬇️
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the biggest glow-up of all times✨🦖✨ happy 33rd unearth day, @SUEtheTrex !
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iykyk 👃
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3 years
A good frosty morning from a Field that knows snow. 👋❄️
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Who's ready for a @Netflix Original Series about extreme cleaning in museums? 🙋‍♀️
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Three people work to vacuum the various sections. To reach the very tops of the poles we rent a special indoor cherry-picker lift, one of only a few in the country.
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why is everyone out here scared of geese when cassowaries exist
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NoOooOoOoo
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Our paleontologists found some unusually furry fossils. Need your expertise, @dog_rates .
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#FossilFriday pro-tips coming at you from this "skeleton crew" 😉 These colleagues and paleontologists spent three weeks fossil hunting in Utah's Cedar Mountain Formation this summer. 🦴
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2 years
Felt s-cute, might delete later. 😘
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fewer parasocial relationships more relationships with Parasaurolophus
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We'd like to make you aware that birds are dinosaur descendants. 🦖➡️🐧 Please take the wing of another and marvel at these modern-day dinos. #PenguinAwarenessDay
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We'd like to make you aware that birds are dinosaur descendants. Please take the wing of another and marvel at these modern-day dinos. 🐧 #PenguinAwarenessDay
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adding “flossing” to the list of things T. rex arms weren’t used for
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We were warned of the theropod uprising. And now they have access to ~i n f o r m a t i o n~
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Shedd Aquarium
4 years
While this may be a strange time for us, these days feel normal for animals at Shedd. Our caregivers are constantly providing new experiences for the animals to explore and express their natural behaviors with. Let us know what penguin activities you would like to see! (3/3)
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We just call it like we see it.
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Never change, @FieldMuseum .
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Every day is Saturday when you're the world's most complete, best preserved T. rex. 🦖 Hope SUE's big band energy helps you kick this week off right. 🎺✨
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when they say their favorite dinosaur's Dimetrodon. 💀
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On June 2, we’re welcoming a new fossil friend to our main hall: Spinosaurus aegyptiacus! 👋
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gar have lived through both the breakup of Pangea and Netflix password sharing.
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lol remember when we thought tyrannosaurids stood upright
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one ✨thicc✨ therapod
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We discovered a time capsule under @SUEtheTrex , left by the folks who built the landform. It includes a Chicago Sun Times paper from May 15, 2000 and a VHS—contents TBD. #SUEOnTheMove 📼🦖
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if it's a puppy, it's a great dane...
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@SUEtheTrex
SUE the T. rex 🦖
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WE’RE GETTING A PUPPY YOU GUYS
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influencer T̶y̶r̶a̶n̶n̶o̶s̶a̶u̶r̶u̶s̶ ̶r̶e̶x̶ in the wild
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Turns out the vending machines do not accept SUE bucks. 😬
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Would it be fair to say that we've got some of the oldest @Cubs fans in town? Let's go Cubs! 🐻⚾️ #FlyTheW
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“It’s me, hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.” 😬
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Nothing like the motion of a Cambrian ocean to relax you mid-week. 🏝 Can you spot the many-eyed, nozzle-nosed Opabinia?
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Dear @BioDivLibrary , Roses are red Violets are blue Your collections are 💯 And we 💙 you! #MuseumBouquet 🌼: Anne Pratt ➡️
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one hot gill walk 375 million years ago and now we're swimming through email
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the next time you want to text your ex, message Máximo instead 📱1 (844) 994-3466
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[They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could give the dinosaur Twitter, they didn't stop to think if they should.]
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Feeling cute. Might delete later.
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Now open—Jurassic Oceans! 🌊 While dinosaurs were dominating the land, massive marine reptiles became larger and fiercer. Dive into prehistoric oceans to face these #MonstersOfTheDeep . 🦈
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you have two choices this weekend: 1️⃣ rewatching JP3 2️⃣ reliving JP3
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#GarWeek c. 1905
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boss: "you should come in; there are too many distractions when you're working from home." the office:
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Today, Brachiosaurus donned his dino-sized @Cubs jersey. 🦕He puts the 2,000-pound "body" into #EverybodyIn . 😉
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SUE sizes up some fellow air-breathing predators @shedd_aquarium . 👀 Arapaima are one of the world's largest freshwater fish.
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good morning
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*accidentally opens FaceTime*
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The Endangered Species Act has been the most essential piece of US legislation for protecting plants and wildlife. The Peregrine Falcon, humpback whale, and Tennessee purple coneflower would’ve all likely disappeared without it.
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Breaking News: The Trump administration announced plans to significantly weaken the Endangered Species Act, the nation’s bedrock conservation law
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which apex predator would win in a fight: 🌊 Spino OR 🦖 @SUEtheTrex ? 🎨: @rextoothstudios
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@WBBMNewsradio
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The @FieldMuseum has a new dinosaur — one that could probably beat @SUEtheTrex in a fight.
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Hola, amigos. It has been a long time since speaking with you on the Twitter, but there has been a good reason. I have been working on something muy exciting.
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Millennials when Gen Z calls them "dinosaurs." 😑
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SUE snuck out to say hi to @shedd_aquarium pen’ pals Darwin and Izzy. 🦖💙🐧 These dino descendants were a bit distracted by eating—an activity SUE loves and applauds.
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Real talk: it took us six hours to film this, and it was real cold during that final scene. So we're indulging in this RT for anyone who might've missed over the holidays.🦖💙
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Hoping all your dreams come true this holiday season.
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how it started: how it's going:
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Did you shout out the correct answer while watching @Jeopardy last night? 👀
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Wishing Wellington and his friends over at @shedd_aquarium a most excellent #WorldPenguinDay ! SUE would love to visit those tiny theropods IRL but will settle for a socially distant celebration this year. 🐧🐧💙🦖
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Out of office: gone marching. #YouthClimateStrike #StrikeWithUs
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Your quarterly reminder that birds are dinosaurs.
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Happy Octo-ber 8 from our 127-year-old giant Pacific octopus. 🐙
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“Unprecedented” dinosaur fossils have been discovered in the foundation of 333 N. Michigan Avenue. 😲
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ok we pull up
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corporate wants you to find the difference between these two pictures
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@dino_man06
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This is how Spinosaurus looked like:
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Sometimes #NationalCatDay sneaks up on you.
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@Cubs SUE the T. rex is getting a new friend! Our titanosaur might even cover more ground than Javy...
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"A platypus?" "PERRY the platypus?!"
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SUE's platform: currently experiencing 0 outages. 🦖⚡️
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The world's most complete T. rex is also a complete pain in the butt.
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SUE the T. rex 🦖
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More Sue pictures please! The people have spoken!
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Máximo is very pleased to make your acquaintance. 😁 #HelloM áximo
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