September 2024 Issue

The deep frontier

How billions of dollars are revolutionizing ocean exploration

How to bring a 75-foot-long dinosaur back to life

This rare burial site reveals secrets about the Sahara's lush past

What this writer learned retracing Mao's Long March through China

How to see Katmai's famous brown bears up close—and stay safe

How these trickster caterpillars outwit and outlast other insects

A photographer reveals the astonishing ways these masters of metamorphosis can fool their predators and us.

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What life is like when your brain can't recognize faces

The world’s heaviest snake has been hiding a big secret

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