About 66 million years ago, an asteroid slammed into Earth with the force of a billion nuclear bombs. In an instant, the dinosaurs were gone, and the planet was left smoldering. But life didn’t vanish; it adjusted, stumbled forward, and evolved in unexpected ways. Odd new creatures began to appear, and the world started over. Beginning Aug. 29, the Field Museum invites visitors to step into that overlooked chapter with its new exhibition, After the Age of Dinosaurs , on view through Sept. 7, 2026.

The exhibition drops visitors into the messy aftermath of the impact. Animations, thunderous sound effects, and even a fossilized fish, thought to have died on the very day of the strike, set the tone. From that destruction came a planet reborn: rainforests teeming with flowering plants, mamma

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