William Mullen

Field Museum employees were offered early retirement and buy-out incentives Friday as the museum announced a goal of paring approximately 50 jobs from its staff of 547 people by November,...

A meteorite that lit up the night sky over the upper Midwest as it plummeted into southeastern Wisconsin on April 14 now has a name: Mifflin, for rural Mifflin Township...

Two foundling sea lion pups, abandoned by their mothers immediately after their births at a popular San Francisco tourist attraction, have a new home at Brookfield Zoo. The pups, still...

Dead set against people keeping chimpanzees as pets, Lincoln Park Zoo primatologist Steve Ross flew to Montana last year to face Jeanne Rizzotto, a wealthy Realtor who had declared on...

Archaeologists are at work in Chicago's Gold Coast, the city's ritziest neighborhood for the past 120 years, digging for buried relics that might describe everyday life 100 years ago inside...

Even for a library, the Newberry Library on the city's Near North Side has been getting an awful lot of books delivered to its freight dock in the last couple...

Field Museum officials have agreed to return the remains of 22 people whom a museum expedition brought to Chicago in 1928 after digging them up from an Inuit village in...

Doug Taron and Vincent Olivares are no Dr. Frankensteins, but they believe they have gone a long way in solving the mystery of how to get a very rare butterfly...

A mated pair of Guam Micronesian kingfishers, one of the most severely endangered animal species in the world, laid two fertile eggs this spring deep inside a hollowed-out palm log...

A mated pair of Guam Micronesian kingfishers, one of the most severely endangered animal species in the world, laid two fertile eggs this spring deep inside a hollowed-out palm log...