Think “dinosaur” and your brain is likely to default to a Tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops, stegosaurus, velociraptor—all the superstar fauna of the Mesozoic era.
Step one in diversifying the Field’s dinos: moving Sue out of the museum’s vast white-marbled main room after 18 years. The T. rex skeleton was taken down and rebuilt in a new suite on the second floor earlier this year to make way for Máximo—a massive herbivore native to South America.
The exhibition—which opens at the Field Museum on June 15—will include about 40 species from the icy continent from a time 200 million years ago when it was part of a bigger supercontinent called Gondwana. Then Antarctica was a wooded, lush habitat with a temperate climate that contained a number of dinosaurs—many of whom were covered with feathers.
