West Nile kills 2 people, 3 zoo birds
Two more Illinois residents were confirmed dead from the 4West Nile virus Friday, and the spreading, mosquito-borne disease also claimed its first animal victims at Lincoln Park Zoo: two geese...
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Failed 1st births common in whales
The odds were against Naya, a 13-year-old beluga whale, when she went into labor with her first calf last week at the Shedd Aquarium, yet nervous keepers held out hope...
Failed 1st births are common in whales
The odds were against Naya, a 13-year-old beluga whale, when she went into labor with her first calf last week at the Shedd Aquarium, yet nervous keepers held out hope...
West Nile kills 2 people, 3 zoo birds
Two more Illinois residents were confirmed dead from the West Nile virus Friday, and the spreading, mosquito-borne disease also claimed its first animal victims at Lincoln Park Zoo: two geese...
New train exhibit a model of accuracy
When the Museum of Science and Industry unveils its model railroad exhibit this fall, Chicagoans will be able to look down on a miniature Loop, complete with operating elevated trains...
Lost periscope from German U-boat turns up
For nearly 50 years, a German submarine explored by more than 24 million visitors to the Museum of Science and Industry has been missing one very important part: the periscope...
Summer songs silenced as Nile virus hits birds
An eerie silence has descended on back yards throughout the Chicago metropolitan region in the waning weeks of the summer as the West Nile virus has decimated a huge portion...
Scientists try for butterfly breakthrough
As biologist Doug Taron watches with the anxious pride of a new father, dozens of tiny and nearly invisible caterpillars have been hatching in a bank of screen-sided cages in...
Museum cultivates largest display of pearls
La Peregrina, a stunning pear-shaped pearl that goes on display at the Field Museum Friday, has such beauty that when it was discovered by a slave in the Gulf of...
Zoo unveils bigger and, it says, better ape house
Lincoln Park Zoo's proposed $25 million Great Ape House, which goes up for city approval this month, would be a startlingly different facility than the one it is designed to...