William Mullen

Though it has not had the same gee-whiz, near non-stop media attention that the 1977 "Treasures of Tutankhamun" exhibition enjoyed, this year's King Tut show at the Field Museum has...

Known simply as "Rupe" to colleagues and generations of graduate students he mentored at the Field Museum, where he had worked for more than 70 years, renowned entomologist Rupert L....

Like a medieval alchemist, a good librarian can make magic by bringing together the right book and the right reader. That is what happened the day Paul Saenger put a...

An Asian species recently migrated into Lincoln Park Zoo's African area when keepers put three two-humped Bactrian camels into the elephant yard, vacant since the shocking deaths of the zoo's...

One by one, Newberry Library curator Robert Karrow pulled old maps from oversized file folders, each recovered from a treasure trove that had been packed away and forgotten for nearly...

When a frog bites off more than it can chew, it has an advantage over a human who does the same: Frogs can pull in their eyes through the roofs...

Elegant and slightly mysterious, the bridge-tender towers that have stood sentinel alongside the Chicago River's drawbridges for nearly a century often tickle the fancy of Chicagoans and tourists who wonder...

Nobody but nobody who smells of dead mice and rats is allowed to go into Faust's enclosure. That's a hard and fast rule for keepers at the Shedd Aquarium's temporary...

Like two mighty pharaohs who rule supreme over their respective 21st Century realms, Zahi Hawass and John Rowe stared each other down Thursday over an ancient painted stone coffin. Rowe,...

When the first official American flag was accepted and formally approved by Congress in 1777, it was seen less as a symbol of patriotism and more as a military tool--an...