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Articles in June, 2005 issue of Natural History

• Rock of ages
  by Stephan Reebs
• Jointed threads: Joseph Leidy was the first to describe symbiotic bacteria growing together in long strings in animal intestines. Microbiological analyses now link the bacteria with anthrax
  by Lynn Margulis
• Pushing capacity
  by Polly Wiessner
• Strike, counterstrike
  by Stephan Reebs
• Birdsong: A Natural History
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• In the sticks
  by Mark Crispin
• Life in death valley: a tide of blossoms, in the wake of heavy storms, has grown into a big attraction
  by Erin Espelie
• Peekaboo planet: a decade after first finding exoplanets, astronomers may now be seeing them
  by Charles Liu
• Pick of the crop
  by Pamela Maher
• Fueling up: to travel from the Earth to the sky requires propulsion. Propulsion requires energy. Energy requires fuel
  by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The talking Web
  by Robert Anderson
• Report card
  by Stephan Reebs
• Snap! How can the Venus flytrap indulge its taste for insect flesh? The secret is the cunning construction of its leaves
  by Adam Summers
• Dinosaurs: ancient fossils, new discoveries
  by Joe Rao
• Observing, skeptically
  by Peter Brown
• An ounce of prevention
  by Graciela Flores
• Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Museum events
• Preservation halls
  by Stephan Reebs
• Dance of the sexes: a lemur needs some unusual traits to survive in Madagascar's unpredictable environment
  by Sharon T. Pochron
• What the cat dragged up
  by Erin Espelie
• Wave in the water
  by Graciela Flores
• The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom
  by Laurence A. Marschall
• Soup's on
  by T.J. Kelleher
• Behind closed doors: wielding a vintage camera, a photographer explores the storerooms and back-room cabinets of a great natural history museum
  by Mary Knight
• The sky in June
  by Joe Rao
• Beyond DNA?
  by Stephan Reebs
• Why do cave fish lose their eyes? A Darwinian mystery unfolds in the dark
  by Luis Espinasa
• Balanophagy
  by William Bryant Logan