After the Chelyabinsk meteor tore through the Earth's atmosphere and crashed into a Russian town earlier this year, a meteorite from the space rock is...

A 92-year-old Cincinnati woman reunited on Sunday with one of her dearest friends from her childhood, whom she hadn't seen in over 60 years -- who jus...

CHICAGO -- Scientists from Illinois have found a rare, 600-year-old Chinese coin on the Kenyan island of Manda. The Field Museum in Chicago announced...

From fireflies to fast cars, humans are drawn to bright shiny things — a fascination the Field Museum has capitalized on in its latest exhibit which...

A Field Museum scientist in Chicago has unearthed the fossil of a monster-like sea predator that was at the top of the maritime food chain roughly 244...

CHICAGO -- Chicago's renowned Field Museum, a major center of global scientific research, has announced plans to cut staff, overhaul operations and li...

CHICAGO -- Designer Maria Pinto, well-known for dressing first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey, used her eye for fashion to curate antiquities f...

Chicago's tallest skyscrapers have gorgeous, sweeping views of the city that can't be beat. Except maybe this season, when those views will be obscure...

One key contributor to a good immune system is good genes. Lately, researchers have been asking, Where did these "good genes" come from? The answer: sex with Neanderthals.

Last week, summer (and the unbearable heat) seemed like it would never end. As August draws near, fall is suddenly looming like never before. Time to ...

As recently as 2006, the Field Museum was the city's top tourist attraction, drawing more than 2 million visitors with "Tutankhamun and the Golden Age...

If you've been looking for an excuse to get down to some of Chicago's great lakefront museums, next week will provide the perfect one: they'll be free...

Singer-songwriter Andrew Bird may only be 37 years old, but he's already found his way into a museum. One of the Chicago native's compositions is the...

Eighty-three years ago, an anthropologist from the Field Museum dug up the remains of 22 people from marked graves in Labrador, Canada, despite the ob...

Looking to expand your horizons, but don't want to spend much money? Several of the city's attractions offer admissions-free days and even weeks. ...

Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit Chicago, prepare to be smitten by the remarkably endearing Lyuba--the most well-preserved ...

Remember the Chicago cougar? It has been slightly more than a year since it was shot by police as it wandered Roscoe Village....

The tanking stock market has hit the Field Museum's endowment, which has dropped about $95 million -- 30 percent -- leading to salary cuts, layoffs an...