Natural History Magazine

Biomechanics

How can the Venus flytrap indulge its taste for insect flesh? The secret is the cunning construction of its leaves.

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

June 2005