The ancestor of Vitoid grapes, which eventually led to the commercial grape varieties cultivated today, likely originated in ...

Some people may find them creepy, crawly, and scary. But the folks at Peggy Notaebart Nature Museum in Lincoln Park say ...

One of Chicago’s most beloved historians, Sherman “Dilla" Thomas, is joining the DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center.

The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum's new exhibit on arachnids aims to shift the perception about spiders, and other creatures.

Dinosaurs had sex. Fossil nests and eggs, as well as the ways today’s birds and crocodiles reproduce, leave no doubt on that ...

The findings shed light on how proteins like collagen may survive for millions of years within dinosaur bones.

For years, an elaborately displayed tooth at the Art Institute of Chicago has been thought to belong to the major Christian religious figure John the Baptist. As it turns out, that claim has no teeth.