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A magazine of scientific research and education in nature and culture. Features articles, book reviews, and general information about the natural world and its inhabitants.

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The natural moment: angling without an angle.(THE NATURAL EXPLANATION)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the style of a lone, languid fisherman who infrequently casts a line, the typical anglerfish hunts by the motto, If you bait and wait, they will come. For most, that bait is conveniently built-in, near the mouth: the modified tip of a dorsal-fin spine in the...

Muscle bound.(nature.net)(physiology of giraffes)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My children tease me about my "fear" of giraffes. It all started after I visited the popular exhibition "Body Worlds," the creation of German anatomist Gunther von Hagens (www.bodyworlds.com/ en.html). Even after viewing half a dozen "plastinated" and posed human...

Beauty before brains.(WORD EXCHANGE)(Correction notice)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The credit for photographer Thomas Vignaud, who took the opening image for "Brains of Beauties," by Paul S. Katz [5/09], was inadvertently omitted. With 10 million times the neurons of sea slugs, the editors can offer no excuse.

Linguistic dinosaurs.(WORD EXCHANGE)(Editorial)
June 1, 2009... Olivia Judson will be taking a break from her "Life Zone" column; along with her audience, we look forward to her return. Meanwhile, a reader questioned Judson's assertion that "birds are dinosaurs: they are descended from a dinosaur lineage" ["Seeing the Light," 4/09]. "It is as wrong to say...

Fireproofing for a flame.(SAMPLINGS)(bowerbirds)(Brief article)
June 1, 2009... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] To beguile females, some males build mansions, others build bowers. Male great bowerbirds (Chlamydera nuchalis) of northern Australia erect two walls of twigs partially flanking a six-foot-long passageway that they pave with conspicuous bits of bones, stones,...