National Geographic magazine is known for their breathtaking cover photos, but did you know they didn't start using a cover photo to help sell their magazine until the 1959? Before that it was just a bunch of text describing each issue's contents, which didn't do much to help them become one of the most popular and successful magazines of all time.
This year National Geographic is celebrating their 130th anniversary, so they created an amazing timelapse video showing how far their cover photos have come from 1888 to 2018.
It shows not only how important the cover photos became for the magazine's image, it also shows how far nature photography has changed since the mid-20th century.
-Via Laughing Squid