William Mullen

After trying for five days to shake "a little cold," Lisa Amoruso went to the doctor in early November. She complained of chills, aches, fatigue, fever spikes and labored breathing....

James Henry Breasted, founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, was short, bespectacled and cerebral -- hardly fitting the picture of Indiana Jones, the fictional archaeologist many...

Bad news visited the Shedd Aquarium and Brookfield Zoo on Tuesday as the two institutions announced the death of important animals in their collections. A male baby beluga whale, born...

A beluga whale who already had a history of difficult labor and unsuccessful birth got a little assistance from human handlers at the Shedd Aquarium when she delivered a healthy...

A beluga whale who already had a history of difficult labor and unsuccessful birth got a little assistance from human handlers at the Shedd Aquarium when she delivered a healthy...

Lined up head to rear-end in their tunnels, the way they spend much of their lives, naked mole rats look like a string of pale, buck-toothed, wrinkled sausage links that...

Survival for a newborn beluga whale at the Shedd Aquarium remains a question mark as the little male tries to overcome birthing complications that forced four divers into his pool...

All Illinoisans except newborns will soon be eligible to be vaccinated for H1N1 swine flu after health authorities announced Thursday that they were removing guidelines that previously limited the vaccine...

As people become more preoccupied with Christmas shopping and less preoccupied with H1N1 flu, the Cook County Department of Public Health is organizing walk-in vaccination clinics at shopping centers. The...

Last March, a couple of plump, 900-pound California sea lions showed up once again at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, 146 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean. Their...