Most Recent Articles from Natural History

• Erratum 

  The credit for the illustrations accompanying the time line of South American mammals [6/09, page 29] should have read Pedro Fernandes.

  09/01/09 · More from publication

• Two to tango 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At noon the day entomologist Piotr, Naskrecki hiked into Arizona's Madera Canyon, the mercury was...

  09/01/09 by Erin Espelie · More from publication

• Kudos 

  Marina Cord's article "Face-Offs of the Female Kind" [9/08] was chosen for the forthcoming book The Best American Science Writing 2009, edited by...

  09/01/09 by Vittorio Maestro · More from publication

• More than a blink 

  In "The Day We Found the Universe" [6/09], Marcia Bartusiak says that astronomers can calculate the distance to Cepheids--special stars that...

  09/01/09 by Daniel Lipp · More from publication

• Hanging on a tail 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] An illustration accompanying "Splendid Isolation," by John J. Flynn [6/09], shows a South American porcupine and a...

  09/01/09 by Uldis Roze · More from publication

• Our quiet star 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ON A VISIT TO THE newly renovated and expanded Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles I heard Jay M. Pasachoff, an astronomer...

  09/01/09 by Robert Anderson · More from publication

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