The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has received its largest individual monetary gift since Andrew Carnegie founded that ...

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, home to the Tyrannosaurus rex holotype and a famous Diplodocus, will ...

The new temporary attraction with live tarantulas and lots of facts hopes to make you more curious than apprehensive.

The story of the man-eating lions is fairly well-known, but one Field Museum expert went the extra mile to confirm a specific part of the story.

Kellogg Fairbank III, who became the Chicago Maritime Museum’s executive director after a career in business, has died.

Driehaus Foundation. CHICAGO - The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is planning on transforming its historic south portico. The project was made possible with a $10 million grant ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

Founded to house the biological and anthropological collections assembled for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, this massive natural history museum is still one of Chicago’s most ...

But while talking about snakes in general with Field Museum scientists would surely be fascinating unto itself, in this case, the subject is a huge discovery about king cobras. Th ...

Field Museum visitors see less than 1% of its total collection. So where's the rest of it? CBS News Chicago went on a tour behind the scenes.

CBS News Chicago's Marie Saavedra was very brave, taking a tour of the collections visitors don't normally see at the Field Museum of Natural History, getting a behind-the-scenes look at things ...

Anna Davlantes, WGN Radio’s investigative correspondent, joins Bob Sirott to share what happened this week in Chicago history. Stories include when the Blue Man Group debuted in Chicago, Betty White’s ...