William Mullen

The premier artifact at the Museum of Science and Industry, a captured U-505 German submarine, will resurface June 5 in a $35 million subterranean room of its own, going back...

Seeking to defuse accusations that Lincoln Park Zoo has been hiding the facts behind a spate of recent animal deaths, zoo officials opened pathology reports on the nine deaths to...

Wankie, the last of three Lincoln Park Zoo elephants to die in a six-month period, had an undetected infection that reduced her lung capacity when she was shipped to Salt...

Three rare monkeys that had recently been moved to a different exhibit at Lincoln Park Zoo died this week, the latest in a spate of animal deaths that have rattled...

Binti Jua, the ape who became an international hero nine years ago for bringing a human boy to safety after the 3-year-old fell into Brookfield Zoo's gorilla habitat, was the...

Stung by criticism heaped on his institution after the death of a third elephant in the last six months, Lincoln Park Zoo president Kevin Bell on Monday said the zoo...

The third and last elephant in the recent care of Lincoln Park Zoo was euthanized Sunday after it fell ill en route to a new zoo home in Salt Lake...

The ivory-billed woodpecker--thought to be extinct for 60 years--has been found to survive in Arkansas' remote Big Woods hardwood forest, lifting the hearts of scientists and legions of birdwatchers who...

Realizing that sunlight coming through gallery windows was damaging the Field Museum's renowned collection of dinosaur fossils, curators hit upon what was, for 1926, an extravagantly expensive solution. They spent...