William Mullen

In folklore, male lions, with their regal manes and bearing, may be King of the Beasts. In their own families, where moms rule the roost, they're just grumpy dads who...

As every schoolchild knows, many dinosaurs were stupendously, spectacularly big. So big, in fact, that their size might have been their undoing, according to a new paper by the University...

If you've been in Lincoln Park Zoo's 2-year-old Regenstein Small Mammal-Reptile House and seen a monkey doing the breast stroke, you've seen something fairly rare in nature. The monkey most...

The mammoth sculpture's 60 stone pieces are placed in a spiral pattern to resemble a galaxy like our own Milky Way. And cutting through the stones are four open avenues...

As an artifact and irreplaceable piece of history, the 1,120-ton, U-505 German submarine at the Museum of Science and Industry is something Keith Gill doesn't want to turn into the...

As human populations continue to move into and defile the world's last, pristine wild environments, the animals they displace have been passing on to humans new, deadly, difficult-to-conquer infections such...

Emily Teeter, the Oriental Institute Museum's curator of ancient Egyptian artifacts, has been so busy this spring preparing to reopen the museum to the public for the first time in...

Sue, the exquisite Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton the Field Museum paid $8.4 million for two years ago, is beginning to pay scientific dividends as researchers study its bones for clues to...

When Abraham Lincoln passed farmyards on horseback as a circuit-riding lawyer in Illinois in the 1840s and 1850s, many of the chickens he saw pecking and clucking around barns and...

For 27 years, Cynthia Moss has followed a stirring intergenerational saga of love, lust, joy, bloodshed, grief and fierce familial loyalty. The thousand or more characters in this ongoing drama...