William Mullen

Looking in on the gorilla troop at Brookfield Zoo's Tropic World exhibit Sunday, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, who has spent more time with apes than humans the last 25 years, imagined joining...

Proving the folly of throwing out old books and papers, the Oriental Institute, one of the world's renowned keepers of such things, found out Thursday how handy a 2,700-year-old document...

Come Thursday, the great, soaring public halls in the Museum of Science and Industry once again will resound with the deep, throaty, almost mournful call of its coal mine exhibit...

Not so long ago the idea of stopping off at a museum or a zoo to do some serious shopping might have seemed slightly absurd. What, after all, is so...

As a new small mammal and reptile house neared completion early this year at Lincoln Park Zoo, people on a fairly regular basis began mistaking it for the Lincoln Park...

It's an aspect of life at the zoo as routine as the trumpeting of elephants or the chatter of monkeys. It happens every day, indeed many times a day and...

Twenty years ago, paleontologists found Egg Mountain, a fossilized dinosaur nesting colony in Montana that revealed dinosaur mothers of 75 million years ago to be doting, loving and fiercely protective...

Back in the days when ancient Israelites were living through events that later would become Old Testament biblical history, the queen in the faraway Hittite empire wrote a note to...

For somebody who figures to rank in history as one of this century's intellectual giants, a pre-eminent, trailblazing scientist, Jane Goodall approaches life with the humility of a healer and...

Things happen along the rugged Pacific coast of South America, where Humboldt penguins cavort in waves breaking on rocky desert shores, that can make soybean traders smile or frown in...