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.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Officials of the Field Museum of Natural History are proposing $60 million in expansion and improvement plans, and say the state should pick up the tab, as it did for plans to ...

“One of the questions I get all the time is ‘why fashion at the Field?’, because we’re known for dinosaurs,” museum project manager Angelica London said, laughing. But the “Africa ...