William Mullen

Visitors who pay to view colorful, exotic animals inside the Shedd Aquarium have also been seeing some pretty exotic wildlife for free right outside the building. In the autumn, when...

In an announcement with the slight ring of a bad Super Bowl commercial about it, a group of anthropologists Monday described an ancient mountaintop brewery where wealthy, beautiful maidens brewed...

As the nation and the city try to gird for the possible invasion of a deadly and all but invisible avian flu, zoos nationwide are volunteering for duty as sentinels....

When he left his job in 1999 as vice president of academic affairs and director of the Field Museum to head Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in England, his title was...

It is a pretty good sign that a boy caiman lizard is in love when he clamps his powerful jaws on the tail or hind leg of a girl caiman...

Denis Gosselin was the son of a paper-mill worker in Michigan who parlayed his love of good writing and his affable personality into becoming a versatile, popular and successful editor...

When reports came out of Africa in recent weeks that researchers for the first time in history were seeing wild gorillas using sticks and rocks as tools, keepers at Lincoln...

In the world's first cities 4,000 years ago, people came to doctors for help with much the same problems they do today--everything from impotence, depression, tuberculosis and cancer to gluten...

A bunch of chauvinistic, dog-eating yahoos probably is not how most Americans view Meriwether Lewis, William Clark and their intrepid band of explorers who made an epic journey of discovery...

About 1 a.m. on Aug. 24 in A.D. 79, tremors radiating from Mt. Vesuvius' cone-shaped slopes began rattling the walls and rousing the occupants of houses, inns, barracks and brothels...