We snuggle with our cats, give them anti-anxiety medicines when they’re moody, buy them floor-to-ceiling scratching “trees” that they totally ignore in favor of shredding a brand new leather sofa. We ...

When people think of prehistoric life, they tend to jump to two behemoth bookends — the towering dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era and then the woolly mammoths of the ice age. But what about the millions ...

CHICAGO -- An ambitious new exhibition at the Field Museum reassembles some fragments of a world that was shattered forever Aug. 31, 1521. That was when the small Spanish army of conquistador Hernan ...

Our top 10 for the fall exhibition season includes the new headliner at the Field Museum and “Aquí en Chicago” at the Chicago History Museum, created out of popular demand.

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CHICAGO (CBS) -- Wednesday marked the Lunar New Year and the beginning of the year of the snake, and the Field Museum of Natural History figured it made for a fitting time to talk about snakes. But ...

Since November, the Field Museum of Natural History has been hosting an exhibit all about cats of all kinds — domestic and wild, cuddly and ferocious. The last CBS News Chicago headline to come out of ...

New insights into the flying capabilities of a nonbird dinosaur were drawn from an unusually well-preserved specimen known as the Chicago Archaeopteryx. By Asher Elbein A mass of birds died in Chicago ...