William Mullen

If all goes well in the next few months, Chicago will be rewarded with a large, wrinkled, 120-pound bundle of joy next summer when Mauyak, a 16-year-old beluga whale, is...

The Chicago Academy of Sciences said Tuesday that it will close its Nature Museum, which has occupied temporary quarters in the North Pier entertainment complex since 1995, at the end...

Big as a horse, the only relative on Earth of the giraffe, the shy, solitary okapi is an oddball among animals. Taller and heavier than her mate, a female okapi...

Chimpanzees and dolphins, long considered perhaps the smartest non-human animals on earth, soon may have to share that honor with an animal most people considered nothing more than birdbrained. That...

In the world of Sid Nagel and Tom Witten, a dried-up puddle of coffee on a kitchen counter is not so much sloppiness as it is a beautiful example of...

Maybe it was the excitement and romance of being in a new place and surrounded by new faces. Maybe it was the idea of two lusty hunks competing for her...

More than it does most people, physical appearance limits actors--and sometimes blesses them--in the choice of jobs they can go looking for. When the casting call went out for the...

As a boy growing up in colonial Tanganyika, David Western watched as his hunter father gradually became more interested in conserving Africa's wildlife than in shooting it. When his father...

The botched 1972 burglary of the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee in Washington's Watergate complex led two years later to an unprecedented event in American history: the resignation, on...

The $8.3 auction sale of Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex fossil to the Field Museum of Natural History may have created a monster that will scare even the most intrepid dinosaur...