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 ...

A gray stuffed animal named "Bear" vanished at the Strawberry Festival in Long Grove, Illinois, and now a Chicago family is ...

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.

If you haven't visited the Field Museum of Natural History in a few years, it's high time you returned. Here are some tips so you can make the most of your time. CBS 2 Investigators ...

Mumford & Sons: Billed as part of the “Tour Before the Tour,” the British folk rock band takes the stage at the Chicago Theatre days before its new album release for “Rushmere.” It’s ...

This summer in Chicago, the Field Museum will open a new exhibit, featuring a rare specimen not seen anywhere else in U.S.

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 ...

From the late ’40s to the early ’70s, Carl Cotton preserved, mounted, and restored thousands of specimens across the Field Museum and beyond. Now, nearly 50 years after Cotton’s passing, the ...

Chicago's Field Museum is making a prehistoric change next year, replacing the world’s biggest T. rex, known as Sue, with the largest land animal on record, Patagotitan mayorum. A fiberglass ...

Photos: SUE the T. rex’s big moving day at the Field Museum Visitors from all over traveled to see the first day of a month-long process By Sara Freund Feb 5, 2018, 5:41pm CST ...

CHICAGO — Anyone wondering if a recent rock they collected could be something more can get it identified by scientists Saturday at the Field Museum. Scientists will work to identify any clean ...