Picks From The Past

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October 1979

Marriage as Warfare

After decades of ferocious fighting, the Swat wife usually triumphs over her beleaguered husband.

shipwrecked
December 1956

Thirst

Can shipwrecked men survive if they drink sea water?

Onrust
August-September 1974

Disappearance of the Historic Ship Tijger

Part of New York’s heritage vanished when bulldozers dug the foundation for the World Trade Center

flowering wood sorrel
July-August 2006

The Other Kinsey Report

Alfred C. Kinsey's scientific interests went well beyond sex.

mt. kenya
June 1996

Little Criminals

A true story of a lonely plant ecologist and his mischievous neighbors

Golden Orb Spider
American Museum Journal, December 1915

Fragments of Spider Lore

Spiders in history

child photographing anteater
January 1954

An Anteater Named Teddy

Even as a pet, his single interest was in ants, and he never quite got used to a tame chimpanzee.

The highest French court tried a cow in 1546. On the assumption that animals possessed a moral sense, capital punishment was the verdict.
October 1950

Beasts Before the Bar

Quaint court scenes of yesteryear show that ignorance of the law was once no excuse even for an animal.

Soviet boys
September 1951

What Makes the Soviet Character?

The anthropologist analyzes a modern culture

Roy Chapman Andrews in the Gobi Desert
October 1940

Museum Quiz

American Museum—unique clearinghouse of information

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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