Recently added articles from Natural History:
Fortune and Fertility
Oct 01, 2009; ... THE WARMING EARTH For decades, demographers have reported that the more developed a country is in terms of wealth, health, and living standards, the lower its citizens' fertility rate- so much so that most rich European and North American nations cannot sustain their populations without ...
At the Museum
Oct 01, 2009; ... AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY EXHIBITIONS Extreme Mammals: The Biggest, Smallest, and Most Amazing Mammals of All Time Through January 3, 2010 Featuring fossils and modern mammals from the Museum's world-class collection as well as stunning reconstructions, ...
Size Matters
Oct 01, 2009; ... When it comes to metabolism, size matters- cell size, that is, according to a recent study. Small animals have faster metabolisms relative to their body size than do large animals. According to the so-called metabolic theory of ecology, that scaling is responsible for many patterns in nature- ...
Fish or Shrimp?
Oct 01, 2009; ... When a coral-reef fish has an itch, it seeks out a skin cleaning to remove the parasites responsible. One servicing option would be small fish called cleaner wrasses, but the Itchy fish could just as well visit a competing team of shrimp. New research suggests that, as in any long-established ...
Outfoxing Species Decline: Historic Pact Teams AMNH and the National Park Service
Oct 01, 2009; ... At the Museum AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY In 1993, the U.S. National Park Service began monitoring the San Miguel Island fox (Urocyon littoralis littoralis), one of a half dozen subspecies of housecat- sized foxes found only in the Channel Islands National Park off the ...