From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

The observations could signal a new cognitive skill previously unknown amid swine, which are well known for their ...

The aquamarine waters and granite, boulder-clad islands of Seychelles have long beckoned travellers. And now, a new ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — A layer of frost clings to the grass on the morning Tony DeNicola sets out to check his trap. It’s ...

One famous snail’s death highlights the plight faced by diverse Hawaiian snails, of which there were once hundreds of species ...

According to NatureServe, an organization that keeps tabs on North American flora and fauna, more than 7,000 of those species ...

Legends and rumors trail the elusive Queen of Sheba through the rock-hewn wonders and rugged hills of Ethiopia.

Seen through a microscope, a cornucopia of common crops offer lessons on new techniques for making agriculture more ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...

A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the ...

Few things are as thrilling as seeing a magnificent beast in its natural habitat, but some of the world's most beautiful ...