president and CEO of the Field Museum. "It's the evolutionary link between dinosaurs and birds. Most people think dinosaurs went extinct; they didn't, they just evolved into birds." The Chicago ...

From batch sales of unopened rocks on eBay to discreet phone calls to higher-dollar patrons, Illinois’ commercial fossil ...

Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — and who test the outer bounds of legality.

One fateful day 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs — which had inhabited ... a paleontologist and professor of biology at the University of Chicago, told Live Science in an email.

the museum was originally housed in two hallways of what is now called the Chicago Cultural Center. Today, children can dig for "teeth" and "bones" in "Dinosaur Expedition," climb through tunnels ...