Natural History

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Articles in March 2002 issue of Natural History

• Crusty crustacean - In Sum - discovery of Crustacea fossils - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Say it with bowers: if male bowerbirds build it, females will come. But in the mountains of New Guinea, one species is sending mixed messages
  by J. Albert C. Uy
• Animal magnetism - In Sum - navigation of sea turtles - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L Weir
• A short history of muscle-powered machines: what goes around comes around—and does useful work
  by Steven Vogel
• Smells like home - how wasp Polistes sulcifer adopts odors - Brief Article
  by T.J. Kelleher
• One giant leap for wormkind: some microscopic nematodes jump for their supper - Biomechanics - Brief Article
  by Adam Summers
• On earth and in the heavens - Up Front
  by Ellen Goldensohn
• The bug that lays the golden eggs: an insect's odd looks are nothing compared with its odd behavior - Findings - golden egg bug
  by Arja Kaitala
• Rhymes with June and Spoon: how well do you really know the moon? - Celestial Events - Brief Article
  by Richard Panek
• Before and after - Letters
  by Trevor E. Pitcher
• Life lines in the sand: after winter rain, arroyos become the desert's green arteries - In The Field - Sonoran Desert environment - Brief Article
  by Peter J. Marchand
• The sky in March - watching the planets - Brief Article
  by Joe Rao
• The Moon and Saturn - Letters
  by Alice Gomez
• Colors of the cosmos: red, green, and blue may mean one thing to a scientist and something different to everybody else - Universe
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Salt: a World History. . - Review: the spice of life - book review
  by Raymond Sokolov
• Simply connect - Letters
  by Robert Badra
• Interleavings: hardwood and coniferous forests rub shoulders in Michigan's Lower Peninsula - This Land - Brief Article
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• Drought watch - nature.net - Brief Article
  by Robert Anderson
• Match point - Letters
  by Carolyn Dain
• Baseball's reliquary: the oddly possible hybrid of shrine and university - At The Museum - history of baseball and the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
  by Stephen Jay Gould
• Bookshelf. - book review
• Crows show the right stuff - In Sum - New Caledonian crows - Brief Article
  by Kirsten L. Weir
• Museum events in March - Brief Article
• Head start - The Natural Moment - skin shedding in snakes - Brief Article
  by Judy Rice
• New light on UV - In Sum - effects of ultraviolet radiation on Hypericum calycinum - Brief Article
• Seeing red…and yellow…and green…and: we owe our appreciation of color—what it is and how we perceive it—to scientists and artists. Do we also have some hungry primate ancestors to thank for the great pleasure it brings us? - Co
  by Philip Ball
• Beastly fun - Endpaper - animals in ancient Egypt - Brief Article
  by Philippe Germond