William Mullen

If Hollywood is planning any more sequels to "Jurassic Park" or "The Flintstones," it may have to seriously revise how it portrays the biggest and most familiar of all dinosaurs:...

By late morning on the last Thursday of each month, a hundred or more people usually are lined up in front of a single-story industrial building at 6224 S. Wabash...

An apparently weary painted lady alit on a concrete walkway at Fullerton Parkway and Cannon Drive early Monday morning, and Doug Taron was happy to see her, as he plans...

"High-tech" and "grass" are words most people probably wouldn't think to combine. Yet come June 2001, after the city unveils its 16-acre Millennium Park being built over a new underground...

In a development that represents a cultural coup for the public and a new theological battleground for academics, the Field Museum has announced that it will host an exhibit of...

A century ago, Henry Chandler Cowles, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, published his doctoral dissertation, and within months, his work was known, studied and accepted all over...

After four years of preparation, the Field Museum is poised to open the most expensive permanent exhibit in its history, a $12 million high-tech panorama of a low-tech substance that...

In a charming if mysterious twist of nature, sea otters play like puppies throughout their lives, failing to grow out of their childhood exuberance as most mammals do. So it...

Some 2,000 years after he died, and 106 years after he arrived in Chicago, the mummy of a 5-year-old boy finally can safely be seen in public in the Oriental...

A small treasure found in the back of a downtown office closet--six ancient clay tablets from Babylonia covered with cuneiform writing--was never really lost, just benignly ignored by its owner,...