During his first expedition to Africa for the Field Museum, in 1896, Carl Akeley, who would later be recognized as the father of modern taxidermy, collected the skins of more than 500 animals ...

Bruce Patterson, the Field Museum’s MacArthur curator of mammals, said Hosek’s kill may be the largest man-eating lion on record. It will be displayed during a new exhibit opening early next year.

On Sunday, Winifred Smith, 92, and her family visited Bushman’s stuffed remains at a Field Museum exhibit. The family Saturday also toured the Lincoln Park Zoo, where Bushman lived for 20 years ...

Police found Henry Slivers sitting on the sidewalk a couple of blocks away from the Buena Vista Museum. He was petting a taxidermied dingo that had been taken from the museum. Police spotted ...