Natural History Magazine

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Deciphering the link between nature and nurture

Tourists are only encouraging a dubious Vietnamese tradition.

Allergies, autoimmune disease, and the hygiene hypothesis

Threatened by pollution and climate change, the future of Earth’s largest inland body of water is in the hands of five bordering nations.

It's a banner year for snowy owls

Beyond DNA: Epigenetics

Deciphering the link between nature and nurture
Snake Oil Redux

Tourists are only encouraging a dubious Vietnamese tradition.
Eat Dirt?

Allergies, autoimmune disease, and the hygiene hypothesis
Fate of the Caspian Sea

Threatened by pollution and climate change, the future of Earth’s largest inland body of water is in the hands of five bordering nations.
Messengers from the Arctic

It's a banner year for snowy owls

After deposited as eggs in the nests of other bird species, greater honeyguide hatchlings attack the nestlings of their hosts.

Air Drop
Raindrop pockmarks may provide clue to the density of Earth's atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago when the Sun was 30 percent dimmer than today.
Long-Distance Tweets
The tiny songbird, Northern Wheatear, has the stamina to make one of the farthest recorded migrations—scaled for body size—of any bird, as much as 9,000 miles in each direction between the North American Arctic and Africa.
Lil’ Lizards
Four new species of chameleons are discovered in Madagascar. Three rank among the world's smallest amniote vertebrates (the group comprising reptiles, birds, and mammals).

Their cultural history, prehistory, social systems, and more.

Voracious Evolution
Discoveries of more complete remains of cartilagenous fishes have shed new light on the prehistory of sharks and their relatives.
Sociable Killers
New studies of the white shark (aka great white) show that its social life and hunting strategies are complex
Sharks: Man-Eaters and Others
With suggestions that Americans turn to economic account some of the smaller species of the Atlantic Coast

With suggestions that Americans turn to economic account some of the smaller species of the Atlantic Coast

“Robinson Crusoe’s Children”
The Strange Story of Nine English Mutineers Who Took Up Their Abode With Their Native Tahitian Wives, on a Desert Island in the South Seas.
Winning by a Neck
Some trees succeed in life by offering giraffes a meal of flowers.
The Crowninshield Elephant
The surprising story of Old Bet, the first elephant ever to be brought to America

Science on Top of the World
Fossil Discoveries in Downtown San Diego
A mammoth tusk is discovered during an excavation for a new building
Evolution of the First Flowers
Florida Museum of Natural History Study Provides New Insight.

The Eyes Have It
An Internet guide to the importance of "gaze" in robot-human interactions
Iron Men
An Internet guide to the Iron Age Centic culture
Magnetic Minerals
An Internet guide to mineral magnetism
Nano Nano
An Internet guide to the nanoworld

After deposited as eggs in the nests of other bird species, greater honeyguide hatchlings attack the nestlings of their hosts.

Deciphering the link between nature and nurture

Raindrop pockmarks may provide clue to the density of Earth's atmosphere 2.7 billion years ago when the Sun was 30 percent dimmer than today.

The legacy of "Brian Tinsley's clever wife"