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• What life looks like on Mars? 

  A week of tramping for miles underground and sleeping in limestone catacombs tunneled out by sulfuric acid is not everyone's idea of happy camping....

  Natural History, 10/01/03 by Erin M. Espelie · More from publication

• Cold fire of the night 

  Aurora was the radiant Roman goddess of dawn, a charioteer who could light up the night sky. Her namesakes, the aurora borealis and aurora...

  Natural History, 09/01/03 by Erin M. Espelie · More from publication

• Color guard 

  Squid--the bright-eyed James Deans of the ocean--are said to "live fast and die young." Born ready to jet at high speeds, and able to shoot ink at...

  Natural History, 11/01/02 by Erin M. Espelie · More from publication

• Trained eye 

  At summer's end, a young arctic fox is learning to hunt on its own. Photographers John Eastcott and Yva Momatiuk first spied this pup as it...

  Natural History, 06/01/02 by Erin M. Espelie · More from publication

• Cool customers 

  Scientists have long believed that the Arctic reaches of Eurasia were uninhabited by humans until the final stages of the Ice Age, 13,000 to 14,000...

  Natural History, 02/01/02 by Erin M. Espelie · More from publication

• In-flight meal 

  Though bats and birds are both aerial creatures, records of their interaction have been extremely rare. Carlos Ibanez, of the Estacion Biologica de...

  Natural History, 12/01/01 by Erin M. Espelie · More from publication