William Mullen

No matter what it was that Peter Maiken set out to do, he always seemed to do it well, whether it was writing books, editing magazines, playing jazz piano or...

A menagerie of some of the oddest, most outlandish and spectacular animals ever to have lived goes on display this week in the Field Museum's vast new $17 million exhibit...

Since the Spertus Museum opened in 1968, the small, energetic institution has stuck to its mission: to preserve and pass on Jewish history, tradition and art, with particular attention to...

Dan Gebo believes that if we could go back millions of years and see hominids, the early, small-brained humans from which modern humans inherited the ability to move around on...

With bountiful gold mines, powerful kings and fabulous cities, ancient Nubia was a great black African civilization that sprouted and grew 5,000 years ago alongside Pharaonic Egypt, two empires that...

Alpha, a 45-year-old lowland gorilla at Brookfield Zoo, would be roughly 70 in human terms, but she continues to display such a robust libido that two worried zoo scientists launched...

Alpha, a 45-year-old lowland gorilla at Brookfield Zoo, would be roughly 70 in human terms, but she continues to display such a robust libido that two worried zoo scientists launched...

After 150 years, officials on Friday decided the name Chicago Historical Society wasn't good enough anymore and rechristened the city's oldest cultural institution. The building at North Avenue and Clark...

In 25 collective years of studying wild jaguars, a pair of South American scientists have seen only three of the big cats. So this week, in order to learn more,...

When it comes to hedonists of the ape world, primatologist Frans de Waal says the winner is a primate, the bonobo. Having a sexual encounter every 90 minutes or so...