Shedd Vet Shares Update From Madagascar Tortoise Triage Effort
This week, a veterinarian from Shedd Aquarium’s Animal Response Team flew to Madagascar to provide on-site medical care and relocation assistanc...
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Sign of Spring: Shedd Aquarium Welcomes Six Wood Ducklings
Spring is in the air at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, which just welcomed six fuzzy wood ducklings into the world. Wood ducks are a species native t...
Chicago White Sox Make Guaranteed Rate Field Straw-Free for the Season
The Chicago White Sox, along with concessionaire partners, Delaware North Sportservice, Gibson’s ChiSox Bar & Grill and Levy, are joining Shedd ...
Shedd Aquarium Names Gary Gordon Chief Financial Officer
Shedd Aquarium announced today that Gary Gordon, a finance executive with over 20 years of financial and administrative experience across multip...
New Book Explores Zoos', Aquariums' Evolving Role in Tackling Global Biodiversity Crisis
As scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to ...
Underwater Beauty: A New Special Exhibit Coming to Shedd Aquarium
This May, Shedd Aquarium will celebrate the diverse and vibrant beauty of marine life through the opening of its latest special exhibit –Underwa...
New Research at Shedd Aquarium Studies Impacts of Touch Pool Exhibits on Animal Health
Cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) are commonly displayed in touch pool exhibits at accredited zoos and aquariums across the country, but there h...
Snow Day at Shedd Aquarium
Shedd Aquarium’s rescued sea otters received special enrichment when animal care experts brought fresh snow into their habitat. With the densest...
Chicago Zoological Society Takes Lead on Multi-Institutional Cetacean Study
The Chicago Zoological Society (CZS), which manages Brookfield Zoo, is taking the lead in the largest-ever, multi-institutional study of how phy...
Illinois Environmental Leaders Resolve to Reduce Great Lakes Plastic Pollution in 2018
Local elected officials, alongside leaders from Shedd Aquarium, Alliance for the Great Lakes and Illinois Environmental Council (IEC), announced...
Four Rockhopper Penguins at Shedd Aquarium Celebrate Unprecedented 30th Birthdays
Four rockhopper penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome) at Shedd Aquarium are celebrating the big 3-0! The birds, fondly named Drake, Magdalena, Pebbles ...
Local Schools Win Shedd Aquarium's Wreath-Cycled Challenge
More than 120 hand-crafted wreaths made by Chicagoland school children decked the halls of Shedd Aquarium this holiday season as part of an educ...
Asian Carp Expert Joins Shedd Aquarium Research Team
A new staff addition at Shedd Aquarium will help expand the aquarium’s research on freshwater species and waterways. Andrew Casper, Ph.D. joins ...
New Study Documents Behavioral Patterns of Threatened Lake Sturgeon
A newly published study of a threatened population of lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens) revealed behavior patterns that could inform conserva...
Chicago Teens Participate in Global Research Project to Help Save Sharks
Shedd Aquarium is teaming up with an international research project called Global FinPrint, a Paul G. Allen initiative, to engage Chicagoland te...
Animal Response Team Flies Cross-Country to Alaska to Care for Stranded Sea Otter Pup
While Shedd guests and staff celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week here in Chicago, a sea otter expert from the aquarium is up in Alaska working ar...
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Shedd Aquarium Elects Four Senior Executives to Board of Trustees
Shedd Aquarium, Chicago’s most visited paid cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, annou...
A Turtle-ly Awesome Look at Animal Health Check-Ups
Before making his public debut, Dante, a 13-year-old alligator snapping turtle (Macroclemys temminckii), needed to check in with the veterinary ...
Shedd Aquarium Researchers Document Extreme Recovery Capabilities of Shark Species
Shedd Aquarium researchers and colleagues published a research study this month in the scientific journal Marine & Freshwater Research that docu...
Shedd Aquarium Welcomes New Scientist to Conservation Research Team
Shedd Aquarium is excited to welcome Steven Kessel, Ph.D. as the newest addition to the Daniel P. Haerther Center for Conservation and Research....
Shedd Champions New Collaboration Among National Colleagues to Tackle Growing Plastic Pollution Threat Facing Great Lakes, Rivers, Oceans
Shedd Aquarium is one of 19 accredited aquariums across the United States announcing the joint creation of a new Aquarium Conservation Partnersh...
New Study Shows a Caribbean Queen Conch Population is Slowly Dying of Old Age Within a Marine Sanctuary
The queen conch is an iconic Caribbean marine snail whose populations have declined significantly over the last two decades due to overfishing.E...
Vancouver and Shedd Aquariums Assist in First Bi-National Rescue to Save Stranded Beluga Whale
Marine Mammal health experts from Shedd Aquarium (Chicago, Ill.), Vancouver Aquarium (Vancouver, B.C.), and the University of Montreal (Montreal...
Photo: © Whale Stewardship Project
Shedd Teams Up with Restaurants to Decrease Plastic Pollution
Shedd Aquarium is teaming up with Chicagoland restaurants on World Oceans Day, June 8, to decrease Chicago’s contribution of plastic waste that ...
Shedd Aquarium Animal Rescue and Response Team Assists Alaska SeaLife Center with Second Chance for Abandoned Sea Otter Pup
A recognized leader in animal care and conservation, Shedd Aquarium has teamed up with Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC) in Seward, Alaska to provide...
Shedd Aquarium Receives Smithsonian Affiliation
Shedd Aquarium is now formally affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., making possible new opportunities for collaborat...
Shedd Researchers Share Slo-Mo Videos of Endangered Iguanas
In late April, Shedd Aquarium’s conservation research team and community scientists traveled to Andros Island in the Bahamas to study the endang...
Shedd Expands Access for Chicago Residents, Simplifies Pricing
Shedd Aquarium, Chicago’s most visited cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research, announced ...
Shedd Aquarium Launches Regional Research Project with Support from Citizen Scientists
Shedd Aquarium’s conservation research team launched a citizen science project this spring in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin-Mad...
Shedd Aquarium Names Gina Rodriguez Chief Development Officer
Shedd Aquarium, Chicago’s most visited cultural attraction and a national leader in animal care, conservation education and research will welcom...