William Mullen

The west suburbs of Chicago, with their howling winters, are not the sort of place a gardener would normally try to plant an outdoor jungle modeled on equatorial Africa's Ituri...

At zoos, keepers wouldn't dream of offering visitors snacks of roasted loin of lion in the lion house, or bites of eagle egg omelets in the bird house. Yet visitors...

While many of Lincoln Park Zoo's buildings are lovingly restored Victorian dowagers dating to the 19th and early 20th Centuries, possibly the most historic structure there is just 24 years...

Some of the most celebrated fossil bones ever uncovered by science went on display Wednesday at the Field Museum, and they had nothing to do with Sue, the much-anticipated Tyrannosaurus...

In the third chapter of Genesis, the tale of Adam and Eve and the serpent who enticed them ends with God's famous punishment for the wily reptile: "So the Lord...

The discovery of incredibly tiny monkeylike primates, some the size of a human thumb, is cranking up the monumental debate over how monkeys, humans and great apes evolved. Paleontologists working...

Just like conscientious homeowners, staffers at the Art Institute of Chicago periodically descend into the basement, roll up their sleeves and cull through their old bric-a-brac to see what they...

Orphaned when her mother died the day after Christmas, Kayavak, the Shedd Aquarium's 7-month-old beluga whale, slowly is gaining weight on her diet of 25 pounds of fish a day....

A few years from now, cross-country skiers may bump into bicyclists wheeling across their snow-packed trails. The skiers will be able to thank or blame Chicago-sponsored astronomers who spend their...

It is a bit ironic That George Washington's 268th birthday Tuesday comes in the middle of a furious presidential primary election campaign. Washington never liked the idea of politics being...