Natural History Magazine

Flies: The Natural History and Diversity of Diptera

By Stephen A. Marshall

Charles R. Knight: The Artist Who Saw Through Time

By Richard Milner

A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science

By Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud, photographs by Rosamond Purcell

Spring Wildflowers of the Northeast: A Natural History

By Carol Gracie

Desert Air

By George Steinmetz

America’s Other Audubon

By Joy M. Kiser

Lights of Mankind: The Earth at Night As Seen from Space

By L. Douglas Keeney

Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature

By Paul Martineau

Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsrück Slate

By Gabriele Kühl, Christoph Bartels, Derek E.G. Briggs, and Jes Rust

Destination Mars, New Explorations of the Red Planet

By Rod Pyle

Masters of the Planet, The Search for Our Human Origins

By Ian Tattersall

Recent Stories

Love in the Time of Monkeys

The importance of food, jealousy, and paternal care in the evolution of owl monkey monogamy

Amor en los Tiempos del Mono

La importancia del alimento, los celos y el cuidado paternal en la evolución de la monogamia en el mono mirikiná

Life in the Soil

Comparing the rewards of small-scale farming to those recounted by Thoreau

Extravagant Weaponry

Conspicuous armaments are good visual proxies for fighting ability.