The Anniversary edition of Animalia Magazine was a bit more surprising because the person on the cover was none other than Andrew Darwin, the naturalist assigned to document all the life on Mieni Atoll. It was also surprising when the cover of the magazine was closer to National Geographic's magazine cover. Although it was a bit more understandable when they got to Andrew's article.
His article involved his theory on why there were species from several different lands, thousands of miles apart from each other as well as from Mieni Atoll. It was his belief that, during the last Ice Age, there was considerably more land because most of the water of Earth was locked in glaciers. It was because of this that animals were able to migrate more freely around the earth. When the last Ice Age ended, these migration paths were drowned, and caused many animals to be stranded where they currently were. This theory seemed to be backed up by old maps that seemed to show Earth as it was during the last Ice Age. One unintended side effect of this article was a new Broadway musical that dramatized Charles Darwin's "struggle" between his book and the Catholic Church, but also featured parts of the "Science Vs. Religion" debate, the Ancient Alien Astronaut theory, and did so in an extremely fun and silly way.
Another article talked about future Animalian Colonies in other countries, such as China, Russia, and Japan. There were also plans/blueprints shown of the Egyptian and African Serengeti colonies. While the Egyptian Colony wasn't too different from it's original plans, there were a lot of requests to move to the African colony. While the amount of requests were surprising, it wasn't as surprising when it was considered that many of them came from refugees from African nations suffering great enough strife to displace its' own citizens. Because of this, there were plans to convert some, but not all, of future members of the new African colony. Part of that was to prove how Animalian Colonies don't all have to be about converted/uplifted Animalians living in "cordoned off areas". Part of it was about humans and Animalians living together in harmony.
Also because of this article, there was plans in the works to include another colony in the Middle East for similar Refugees, but the problems with that included religious extremists launching attacks, among other things. For now, an Animalia colony in the Middle East was put on hold.
The most interesting Article of the Anniversary Issue was an article that talked about historical predictions that came true, whether from science fiction novels (such as the Atomic Bomb by H. G. Wells, or the Moon Landing by Jules Verne) or from news articles (like the invention of Television by John Elfreth Watkins Jr., or Wi-Fi by Nikola Tesla). What was included was a contest about how Earth would change during the next hundred years (after the article written by John Watkins Jr.). It involved a brief, one sentence summary, and two paragraphs describing what the sentence meant. The Top 20 would appear in the next issue of Animalia Magazine, as well as their authors receiving $200 prizes, with some of the more "sexual" predictions not shown at all. This was deemed mandatory because of the fact that many younger members of society read Animalia Magazines for the comics in them, such as The Adventures of Ed Meanstreets.
All together, The Anniversary Issue of Animalia Magazine was a great way to show how Animalia had changed with it's official inception 18 months ago.