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Actual American Rattlesnakes

Historians are recovering the overlooked history of North America’s Crotalus horridus, the timber rattlesnake.

by Whitney Barlow Robles, Matthew Wills via JSTOR Daily on August 3, 2025
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Will the Sun Ever Set on the Colony?

Tracking the history of a curious scientific term.

by Whitney Barlow Robles via HNN on February 13, 2024
Natural History in Two Dimensions

What can making now tell us about the past? Or should the past remain untouched?

by Whitney Barlow Robles via Commonplace on January 1, 2018

Curious Species: How Animals Made Natural History

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A drawing of a hedgehog in Buffon's Natural History.

Waking From the Dream of Total Knowledge

Considering how relationships of cooperation and perhaps even solidarity might be forged between human beings and animals.

by Daniel Kraft via The Hedgehog Review on April 15, 2024

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Join, Or Die: Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?

Revolutionary Americans adopted native snakes as symbols for their cause. Why?

by J. L. Bell via Age of Revolutions on July 5, 2021

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