Natural History Magazine

Picks from the Past

Characteristic facial expressions, postures, and movements are the key to an understanding of animal psychology and the soul of animal art.

Even at an early evolutionary stage, bird-like dinosaurs occupied different niches in the same ecosystem,

Dung beetles use light from the MIlky Way to find their way

Recently identified subspecies ranges farther than first imagined: across Africa.

An archaeologist ponders the fate of Hoover Dam

February 1938