The Brain Scoop

Peter Makovicky introduces us to Siats meekerorum, a new species of dinosaur discovered and described by him and Lindsay Zanno!

Emily answers your questions on ocean exploration, poop, and butterfly memories!

Emily: "I could have never imagined this last year would be as rewarding and as transformative as it turned out to be. Thank you all for watching and learning with me!"

Wanna know how you can have Anna Goldman's job? Insider's tip: DFTBA.

Stay tuned for The Brain Scoop family band - I'm playing the backup gourd.

With all the great press The Brain Scoop has been getting lately, it's time to put our best foot forward!

This Valentine's Day, woo your boo with sexy entomology words! Spermatheca"..."aedeagus­".... "oral-anal social trophallaxis"...

CSI Meteorites: I guess you could say this show is.... astronomical. YEEAAAAAAAAAH

Emily answers your questions from the antler room!

Welcome to The Brain Scoop, based out of The Field Museum in Chicago, Illinois. We're devoted to exploring the behind-the-scenes work of natural history museums and celebrating the diversity of this amazing world. Join us!

Wherein Emily meets our collective origins.

Wherein we seriously ask ourselves - are two heads better than one?

Come for the 4 eyes, stay for the beetle time lapse.

Come visit "The Machine Inside: Biomechanics" at the Field or find a traveling show in your area, and check out Bob's fun interactives for yourself! :D

Meet Max: The Replicator. Baby Turtle Maker. Termite Mound Architect. Giant Worm Enthusiast.

Crocodilia: Keeping it real for the last 83.5 million years.

On April 26th, Audubon's 229th birthday, we remember the making of The Birds of America and JJ's flowing golden locks of hair.

Wherein our dynamite Exhibitions Department creates an immersive media experience inspired by a discarded wax candle.

Wherein we discuss the biological and evolutionary imperatives of human breastfeeding over the last 80 million years.

RAINDROPS ON ROSES AND WHISKERS ON KITTENS: these are a few of Emily's favorite things!

They're not.

The answer to the ever-burning question: why do we need so many dead things?

Your dead insects and their details are valuable to science. Start your own collection today!

Bonus clip from our episode "How To Pin An Insect" - enjoy the lil' tiger beetle!

Where biology and engineering meet: let's puzzle out what the function is for some of our specimens! QUIZ SHOW!

Wherein we go on a fishing trip for 52-million year old fossils! The first in a series about the excavation of Fossil Lake, Wyoming.

Join us for Part II in our quest to uncover the tropical world of ancient Fossil Lake! Palm trees in Wyoming! Sex in the fossil record!

Welcome to five consecutive calendar days dedicated to programming about everyone's favorite cartilaginous fishes: the sharks!

Wherein we take an adventure into the deep oceans of history in pursuit of fossilized sharks.

Weapons made with shark teeth from 100+ years ago are not only awesome, but they may also help us uncover clues about species distribution.

Every year millions of sharks are slaughtered for their fins. The Field has developed new methods to identify some of these sharks to better enforce laws and help end the illegal trade. Science FTW!

There are 12 living Orders of sharks and rays swimming in our oceans today, and more than 440 known species. Here are some of the wackier ones!

In which we set out and find fossil meteorites in time and space. Wait... meteorites can be fossilized?! Mind blown.

2014 marks the 100-year anniversary of the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon, the most numerous bird species in the history of our planet.

So.... we've got all of these fish fossils. Now what? To the prep lab!

y0 we've got some updates!

Team Brain Scoop is about to helicopter into a biologically unknown region of the Peruvian jungle with a team of conservationists to study and document the area's biodiversity for the first time in its history.

In January 2014, Emily accompanied Curator of Mammals Bruce Patterson on a field expedition into the bat caves of Kenya. They were joined with Field Museum Media Producers Greg Mercer and Emily Ward to document the experience. This is the 1st installment in a 2-part series of highlights from the trip; there's much more to come!

This is the 2nd installment in a 2-part series of highlights from our expedition deep into the bat caves of Kenya!

In which we take an expedition deep into an area of unstudied rainforest, and document our discoveries. At night. This is the first part in a series about The Field Museum's Rapid Inventory No. 27, a journey through the forests between the rivers Tapiche and Blanco in Peru. Every year, the Museum's conservation group [the Action Center!] gathers together leading scientific experts across a number of disciplines (botany, zoology, geology, and anthropology) in order to gain an understanding of little-known areas of the rainforest. They work with local communities and their governments to help inform decisions made for conserving these unique, precious, and threatened parts of the world.

When in doubt, sniff a tree. No, really! Botanists and rainforest ecologists follow their noses to identify certain species in addition to looking at the plant's flowers, and counting leaves on branches. This is the second part in a series about The Field Museum's Rapid Inventory No. 27, a journey through the forests between the rivers Tapiche and Blanco in Peru. Every year, the Museum's conservation group [the Action Center!] gathers together leading scientific experts across a number of disciplines (botany, zoology, geology, and anthropology) in order to gain an understanding of little-known areas of the rainforest. They work with local communities and their governments to help inform decisions made for conserving these unique, precious, and threatened parts of the world.

We found so many snakes with Pablo that we decided to have a few episodes devoted to these beautiful and often misunderstood creatures. First: the common Fer-de-lance! This is a segment in a series about The Field Museum's Rapid Inventory No. 27, a journey through the forests between the rivers Tapiche and Blanco in Peru. Every year, the Museum's conservation group [the Action Center!] gathers together leading scientific experts across a number of disciplines (botany, zoology, geology, and anthropology) in order to gain an understanding of little-known areas of the rainforest. They work with local communities and their governments to help inform decisions made for conserving these unique, precious, and threatened parts of the world.