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Spinosaurus aegyptiacus revealed to be first semiaquatic dinosaur

June 17, 2018 at 9:15 a.m.

If you think it sounds incongruous to describe the largest predatory dinosaur yet known as "half duck, half crocodile," well, correct. But that's the phrase University of Chicago paleontologist Paul...

Steve Dawson back with jazz hybrid

June 17, 2018 at 9:31 a.m.

To hear Steve Dawson tell it, the thing he needed most to launch his new musical project, a jazz-Americana hybrid band called Funeral Bonsai Wedding, was courage. Dawson had the...

12 Chicago museum events this fall

June 17, 2018 at 9:10 a.m.

Walt Disney is sticking around, jellyfish are going away while snow monkeys arrive, and David Bowie, as represented by his artifacts, is coming to town. The fall museum calendar is...

12 Chicago museum events this fall

June 18, 2018 at 8:20 a.m.

Walt Disney is sticking around, jellyfish are going away while snow monkeys arrive, and David Bowie, as represented by his artifacts, is coming to town. The fall museum calendar is...

Completely unprepped for doomsday

May 23, 2019 at 3:38 a.m.

All across the country people are preparing or, in the shorthand, "prepping" for a coming apocalypse — the day when, in the even shorter hand, the "SHTF." That's an acronym...

Charlotte Lukems, right, waits outside in the rain before attending the Garth Brooks concert at Allstate Arena.

Brooks has friends: many, many thousands of them

June 17, 2018 at 9:32 a.m.

Garth Brooks, it turns out, has friends in flat places, too. Lots and lots of them. Denizens of the wide prairie greeted the returning country superstar en masse over the...

Comedy for fall 2014: Big laugh lineup in Chicago

May 15, 2019 at 5:45 p.m.

It's a fine fall for comedy in the Chicago area as the latest stand-up renaissance continues. Below are some of the leading shows of the season, and we don't even...

Kyle Kinane’s unfinished puzzle

May 15, 2019 at 5:44 p.m.

Before he found comedy, Kyle Kinane was in a Chicago punk band, The Grand Marquis, with some of the friends he grew up with in west suburban Addison. "Our motto...

An African wild dog is submissive to his litter mate brother.

Brookfield Zoo: A walk on the wild side

June 18, 2018 at 8:27 a.m.

When you enter Brookfield Zoo, it seems as if the big fountain on the broad, open plaza, the one surrounded by circular pathways, ought to be the center of things....

New Field Museum exhibit brings ancient Madagascar to life

June 17, 2018 at 10:34 a.m.

More than just the setting for a fanciful cartoon movie, Madagascar, of course, is a real island boasting some of the most fascinating biological history on Earsth. A new Field...

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