William Mullen

A 26-foot totem pole that had resided for more than a century at Chicago's Field Museum is standing tall again among descendants of the people who carved it, long ago,...

One day, on a well-trod stretch of Florida's famed Miami Beach oceanfront, Rudiger Bieler did something hundreds of thousands of tourists do every year: He stooped over and picked up...

One is turning out to be something of a shy mama's boy. The other is an irrepressibly spirited orphan girl. For the Shedd Aquarium keepers who care for these two...

Bowing to perhaps the most famous woman ever to have lived, the Field Museum will host the greatest exhibition on Cleopatra ever mounted, using hundreds of pieces of artwork and...

Thousands of miles and 27 years have separated them since they last saw each other, but Jack Badal still is haunted by dreams of his show-business life with Ramar, the...

When landscapers are done fixing up a 7 1/2-acre crater of muck at the Chicago Botanic Garden next year, the result will be more than pleasing to the eye. It...

Lincoln Park Zoo will begin to empty its doomed Great Ape House next week by sending away one of its two gorilla families, a move that eventually will leave the...

Brookfield Zoo Director George Rabb remembers being 5 years old and watching long lines of carpenter ants marching in orderly files up and down a huge oak in his grandparents'...

Howdy Doody, a 27 1/2-inch tall marionette and Baby Boom icon who spent the last three years locked up in a Rhode Island bank vault while lawyers fought over his...

Ten months ago the Field Museum sent an expedition into a "Lost World" of Peruvian forests, mountains, lakes and streams teeming with plant and animal life, hoping to save an...