William Mullen

In 330 B.C., an apparently very angry Alexander the Great led an army of conquering Greek warriors into the wealthy Persian city of Persepolis. After ransacking kingly palaces and the...

A national swordfish boycott supported by some of America's most prominent restaurants seems to have had the desired effect, raising hopes among environmentalists for similar success stories with other fast-disappearing...

A baby beluga whale born five weeks ago at the Shedd Aquarium will go on public display for the first time Sunday when aquarium officials will allow visitors to watch...

Inside the Museum of Science and Industry's exhibit of artifacts brought up from the Titanic, a thief ignored a strand of pearls and passed up a pocket watch but carefully...

Two baby beluga whales, one 3 days old, the other just short of a year, stuck their snouts against mesh partitions separating their pools in the Shedd Aquarium on Tuesday...

A robust male baby beluga whale arrived at the Shedd Aquarium on Saturday morning, the fourth born there in the last three years. The mother, Mauyak, (MY-ack) delivered the calf...

Some extraordinary discoveries made recently and not so recently by Field Museum scientists in Madagascar go on display Monday in a fusty little corner made to look like one of...

Last month a family of monkeys was moved from its home at Brookfield Zoo to a patch of Brazilian jungle that had not resounded with monkey screech and chatter for...

OK, so it's no Sue. In fact, a fossil set to go on display next month at the Field Museum couldn't be more different from a ferocious carnivore--it appears to...

The mystery of what drove two lions to hunt down and eat more than 130 railway workers in Kenya in 1898 may now be solved: The beasts suffered from excruciating...