An exhibit of clothing and artifacts from the life of Jacqueline Kennedy, whose sense of taste, style and history made her one of the most admired women of the 20th...
Albertus Seba: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities Text by Irmgard Musch, Rainer Willmann and Jes Rust Taschen 587 pages, $150. Before these were museums, in many palaces, estates and elegant city...
For the truck driver, the most interesting part of the strange road trip came on Interstate Highway 65 in Indiana, when Frank, a Lincoln Park Zoo gorilla, began beating his...
Two fossils of a puny, horny-faced, seven-pound, four-legged creature found recently in China are turning out to be early ancestors of Triceratops, the 10-ton, tanklike vegetarian with three mighty horns....
Rumors circulated in the nation's paleontology laboratories for the last several months that the Field Museum had found a valuable dinosaur fossil, a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex. It had--in one...
Like landlords coming to visit prospective tenants, the mayor of Louisville and the director of the Louisville Zoo showed up in Chicago on Friday to meet two gorilla families about...
Jojo, a lowland male gorilla that left Lincoln Park Zoo as a 6-year-old in 1986 with his father's family, this week returned to the zoo and a waiting harem of...
A feathered dinosaur not much bigger than a chicken, recently discovered in northeast China, is expected to give science a clearer picture of the ancestors of today's birds, according to...
When a plastic Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton named Sue recently arrived at the Florida Museum of Natural History, her debut was nearly as grand as when the Field Museum introduced the...
In England 163 million years ago, a big dinosaur walking pigeon-toed along the muddy edge of a river suddenly broke into a spirited, 18-m.p.h. dash, an event recorded for posterity...