William Mullen

Officials at the Shedd Aquarium were hoping Monday that further tests might reveal the cause of the sudden and mysterious death of a beluga whale mother, even as they formed...

Although her mother died suddenly two days ago, a five-month-old beluga whale at Chicago's John G. Shedd Aquarium is showing encouraging signs, officials said. The female calf, Kayavak, started eating...

Immiayuk, the mother of the surviving baby beluga whale born early last August at the Shedd Aquarium, died unexpectedly Sunday evening after becoming listless and refusing to eat Saturday. Monday...

In late fall, a fiberglass outboard fishing boat skimmed across Sarasota Bay, on Florida's coast along the Gulf of Mexico, carrying six riders, all craning their necks at the water....

Inuk, a 2,200-pound, 18-year-old male beluga whale who came to the Shedd Aquarium on breeding loan early in 1997, flew to a new home in Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut Monday...

An unprecedented exhibition in Chicago of hundreds of artifacts salvaged from the doomed ocean liner Titanic, scheduled to open in February, has landed the Museum of Science and Industry in...

Elaborate, exacting re-creations of the Titanic's prow and its elegant grand staircase will be among the spectacular backdrops at the Museum of Science and Industry for the largest display ever...

Most parents understand that Pokemon toys by this time next year may well be gathering dust in the deep, dark, forgotten recesses of children's closets, much like last year's Star...

As primates who share 99 percent of the same DNA as humans, gorillas have personalities, character traits and quirks that etch them as individuals, much like people. Some are showboats,...

For centuries, nomadic Tuareg tribesmen in camel caravans have crossed the Sahara in Niger, passing rocky terrain with protruding bones of a mysterious giant animal, telling their children the bones...