Natural History

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Articles in March 2008 issue of Natural History

• That great beast of a town: in the 1770s, London became the epicenter for a great intellectual quest: discovering the incredible diversity of life on Earth
  by Richard Conniff
• Silk city
  by Hank Guarisco
• 2008 Isaac Asimov memorial debate
• Art for the ages: new murals offer a glimpse of the Pacific Coast's extinct ecosystems
  by Richard Milna
• River rifts
  by Alex Safian
• No taming the shrew: good thing for us it's small, because this predator gives no quarter to its quarry
  by Kenneth C. Catania
• The great rope in the sky
  by Stephan Reebs
• An old foe
  by Stephan Reebs
• Not-So-North Sea
  by Stephan Reebs
• American Chestnut: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Mid-season switch
  by Brendan Borrell
• Multiple personalities
  by Stephan Reebs
• Soup sandwich
  by Graciela Flores
• Wetted bliss: in a Louisiana refuge, different degrees of moisture create distinctive woods
  by Robert H. Mohlenbrock
• March nights out
  by Joe Rao
• Blue in the feathers
  by Stephan Reebs
• Trying Leviathan: The Nineteenth Century New York Court Case that Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• The natural explanation
  by Erin Espelie
• Fossil armored mammal found in Chile
• Sting operation
  by Graciela Flores
• Strength in numbers: if you want to build a planet, you'd best begin with big bunches of boulders
  by Charles Liu
• Good news for green turtles
  by Lydia Bell
• Diana's mountain retreat: named for the Roman goddess of woodlands, a singular butterfly survives in a shrinking habitat
  by Gary Noel Ross
• Skylog
  by Joe Rao
• Earth Then and Now: Amazing Images of Our Changing World
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Inside the code: our DNA contains layers of "extra" information that constrains the direction evolution can take
  by Olivia Judson
• Water: [H.sub.2]O = life
• Journey to the core
  by Robert Anderson
• On swift wings: what airplane designers could learn from the shape-changing wings of birds
  by Adam Summers
• At the museum: American Museum of Natural History
• Language matters
  by Dennis Anthony