William Mullen

After being rescued as eggs three years ago from the banks of the flooding Missouri River, two artificially hatched and hand-reared piping plovers at Lincoln Park Zoo have themselves hatched...

Many measure spring's arrival with their first robin sighting of the year. At the Wal-Mart along Illinois Highway 83 in Villa Park, the staff knows the season of regeneration is...

Bulea, the Shedd Aquarium's only male Pacific white-sided dolphin and one of the original four captured in 1988 for the Shedd's Oceanarium exhibit, has died after struggling in recent years...

You would think it would be pretty hard to overlook a 17-foot high, 3,300-year-old statue of King Tut, the tragic teenager who ruled Egypt as pharaoh until his mysterious death...

Sophia, Brookfield Zoo's famed orangutan mother, Thursday morning publicly introduced her new little daughter, Mei, by climbing to the highest perch in her Tropic World exhibit and tenderly cradling the...

Early Sunday morning, as they do every morning, delicate female sea horses at the Shedd Aquarium started their day by seeking out their mates and entwining their tails together. For...

Early in June, in full view of the public, technicians and scientists at the Field Museum will be stripping 67-million-year-old rock from the fossilized bones of the Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur...

Four Roman Catholic and Protestant politicians from Northern Ireland, unable still to appear together in public because of continuing differences, nonetheless came to America's Middle West this week professing unanimous...

The dinosaur formerly known as Sue will now formally be known as Sue. The Field Museum did an about-face Wednesday and took back the name it had abandoned in January...

On a recent night at the Argonne National Laboratory in DuPage County, a piece of the world's newest technology was brought to bear on some of its oldest. Inside a...