November 1939

Picks from the Past

The Pearl of Allah

The giant clam yielded its 14-pound pearl only after slaying a native diver trapped when its great jaws snapped shut.

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Recent Stories

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