A 'compelling, arresting' (New Scientist) behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing their hidden secretsZoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history museums, and in Nature's Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried treasures in vast museum storehouses.But l...

A "charming, informative" firsthand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals—and how our perceptions impact their future (Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books ).Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs, and can detect electricity. Or a wombat: Their teeth never stop growing, they poop cubes, and they defend themselves with rei...

Wild: A Family Guide to the Animal Kingdom is a stunning introduction to animals, their amazing adaptations, and their unique characteristics and abilitiesExplore the rich diversity of the animal kingdom!Meet dozens of creatures with extraordinary abilities and find out how they have adapted to thrive in the wild. Discover why the chameleon developed champion eyesight, what makes a porcupine so prickly, how the whale became the hero of hearing, and...

From a single beginning, countless millions of stories from the animal kingdom have – and continue to – run their course. Museum objects allow us to investigate some of those stories. Animal Kingdom journeys through both the evolutionary history of animals, and the ways that people have interpreted them in museums. Animals in museums are not only representatives of their entire species, but they also tell us something about the time in which they were collected. T...

Forever is a monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, Neil Clarke. Our February 2023 issue features "The Metric" by David Moles, "Patriotic Canadians Will Not Hoard Food!" by Madeline Ashby, and "Dream Interpretation" by Jack Skillingstead. Cover art by Ron Guyatt.