William Mullen

First she thoroughly breached all sense of propriety among her penguin peers by stealing spouses, brawling with another female and seducing an uninitiated adolescent male. Now, separated from the rest...

An 85-year-old child psychiatrist walking across a downtown Chicago street was killed Friday when she was struck by a charter bus carrying children on a Catholic school day trip from...

To commemorate the 35th anniversary of the onboard explosion that nearly doomed James Lovell to an unpleasant death far from home, the retired astronaut showed up at the Adler Planetarium...

The idea that many animals fled for safety long before any human warning was sounded of the approach of a deadly tsunami in Asia last Dec. 26 was certainly no...

Dissolving away the minerals in a 3-inch chunk of fossilized dinosaur bone, a North Carolina paleontologist has found what appear to be intact, still-soft blood vessels and blood cells belonging...

Just days after announcing a $22 million project to re-engineer the Chicago Historical Society for its 150th anniversary, museum President Lonnie Bunch said Tuesday that he is leaving to head...

The fossil of one of history's scarier sea monsters, the diabolically sneaky, 230 million-year-old Dinocephalosaurus orientalis, is coming to the Field Museum for three months beginning March 19. The creature,...

The city's oldest museum, the Chicago Historical Society, plans to celebrate its 150th birthday next year by spending $22 million to gut and dramatically reconfigure almost all of its exhibit...

Vic Berardi and two dozen of his friends last year collectively spent 695 hours sitting in Illinois Beach State Park, staring into the sky, often in damp, frigid weather, to...