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This Plaintive Song Is From a Land Without Lullabies
A rare tribe lacks music for dancing or soothing their young ones -
The Creativity Hack No One Told You About
Reading obituaries can boost creativity by exposing you to distant ideas -
Inside the Big Bet on Consciousness
The real winner in the battle between two leading theories of consciousness was science itself -
A New Story for Malta
Evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on the island could reshape our understanding of human settlement in the Mediterranean -
Reclaiming Samples of Ourselves
Artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg explores the ethics of human specimen collections in Is a Biobank a Home? -
Manta Rays at Play
Underwater, the mantas circled Evie, ready for a game. A work of fiction. -
A Map for Vanishing Animals
The geography of loss, in two imaginative charts -
Asking Trees to Solve a Roman Conspiracy
Tree-ring records suggest that drought played a role in Roman Britain’s decline -
How Animals Understand Death
Intimations of mortality are not ours alone -
Revisiting an Iconic Space Hat
The Sombrero Galaxy returns in a revamped Hubble image -
Snakes Break All the Rules
Stephen S. Hall on writing his new book Slither: How Nature’s Most Maligned Creatures Illuminate Our World -
Why We Might Not Find Life on Titan
At most, its oceans may contain biomass equivalent to a small dog
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Destruction for Thee, Habitat for Me
For Schaus’ swallowtail butterflies, hurricanes mean clear skies and bright futures
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Conjuring Imaginary Creatures
Dinosaur illustrator Mick Ellison on the evolution of using science and art to visualize the long-extinct animals of the deep past
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In Search of the First Animals
A fossilized ocean reef on a mountaintop may hold clues to the evolution of complex life
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The Last of Their Kind
Are efforts to resurrect the northern white rhino more technological hubris than genuine conservation? -
Living with Lab Mice
A philosopher reflects on their unexpected roommates -
The Animals That Exist Between Life and Death
At the dawn of microbiology, scientists glimpsed unseen worlds and stumbled into a philosophical purgatory -
We Could Have Been Warthogs
The peerless animal wisdom of Robert Sapolsky -
We’re All Wild Things
Welcome to the Animal Issue