This Saturday, October 8, is World Migratory Bird Day. Officially, World Migratory Bird Day is celebrated on the second Saturday in May and October to recognize both the northward and southward migrations. […]
How do we know where monarchs go?
Monarch migration is in full swing! But where do our local monarchs go for the winter? And how do we know where they end up? Dr. Doug Taron is here to […]
What & How Do Snakes Eat?
What do snakes eat? How do they eat? How do they eat big things? Today, Airen and Lalainya are going to walk us through a feeding featuring a few of […]
It’s Finally Thyme: Processing the Botany Backlog
In 1944, the Chicago Academy of Sciences’ Honorary Curator of Botany, Anna Pedersen Kummer, reflected on recent developments to the Academy’s Herbarium in The Chicago Naturalist: “Much excellent materials been […]
Easy Paper Tube Animal Crafts for Kids
We’re revisiting two of our favorite paper tube animal crafts with Dawn and Katherine in this episode of Curious By Nature! Dawn will show us how to make a paper […]
“What do natural history museum collections look like?”
Not many people have had the opportunity to go behind the scenes at our Ravenswood Collections facility…until now! Today, Dawn and Jessica are taking us for a special virtual tour through […]
Collections Reveal Traces of Living Animals
What if there were a way to look back in time and observe living animals interacting directly with their environment? Natural history collections preserve the remains of organisms and the […]
How to tell reptiles and amphibians apart!
We’re revisiting this extremely popular question in today’s episode of Curious By Nature! Join Airen and a few of our Nature Museum critter pals to learn about a few of the […]
Blanding’s turtle release!
On June 7, 2022, the Living Collections team and ecologist Dan Thompson released 117 head–started Blanding’s turtles into the Forest Preserve District of DuPage County. This release was a couple […]
Getting Crafty with Summer Plants!
The school year is winding down, but Curious By Nature is just getting started! We’re kicking off a special summer series revisiting some of our favorite crafts, topics, and more! First […]
