William Mullen

During the time of the Zhou dynasty 3,000 years ago, when China was still a small nation-state in the middle of a continent, its kings kept sending imperial armies to...

One night 24 years ago, Barbara Morgan watched the news and saw an opportunity she said she could not resist, setting in motion two decades of effort, a lot of...

An elderly female chimpanzee who had the rare distinction of pushing aside a male to become the dominant leader of her troop at Lincoln Park Zoo was euthanized by keepers...

The Museum of Science and Industry announced plans Wednesday to revamp some of its largest, most familiar exhibit spaces as a part of a major effort to spur children's interest...

Only a day after images flashed around the world of U.S. troops helping a jubilant Iraqi crowd pull down a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad, another crowd was carrying...

One of the world's great research depositories of animal bones, hides, feathers and DNA samples, the Field Museum this week opens a temporary exhibit on fantastic creatures that can be...

Veterinarian Kathryn Gamble sat next to a table in Lincoln Park Zoo Hospital the other day polishing the big, sharp teeth of an anesthetized black leopard with bubble gum-flavored toothpaste....

Movie producers and advertisers have long relied on chimpanzees comically dressed as humans to entertain their audience, but scientists say the practice is bad for chimps not only as individuals...

John W. McCarter Jr., the Field Museum's president and chief executive officer, received high honors this week when Congress appointed him as one of 17 governing regents of the Smithsonian...

In Chicago neighborhoods, the story of 171 years of immigration is written in the graceful shapes of church roofs silhouetted on the sky. As groups of Roman Catholics arrived from...