Here's how Jorge the sea turtle prepared for the improbable journey—decades after he was found tangled in a fishing net off ...

When it’s time to feed the kids, koala moms do their doody. Then the little ones snack on it. Before you poo-poo the idea, a ...

Have you ever considered that the creatures we find most repulsive might actually be the ones we should appreciate most? National Geographic's recent article "The astonishing superpowers of nature's ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures. On an ...

“All animals with a backbone and a shell are turtles,” says Jeffrey Lovich, Research Ecologist at the U.S. Geological Survey, so it’s an umbrella term used for turtles, tortoises, and terrapins.

There’s no unified national effort to help animals hurt by fires, Gonçalves says. Rescues are done on a local, optional basis, and their extent varies widely in different areas.

Narrated by A-lister Ryan Reynolds, the new Nato Geo show Underdogs celebrates the stories of the heroic underdogs of the natural world ...

The event was prefaced by an agreement between CITES and the World Organisation for Animal Health, a 90-year-old intergovernmental group responsible for animal disease control, to “collaborate ...

Photo Ark Babies is National Geographic Explorer Joel Sartore's sixth book exploring the marvels of the animal world through his ongoing National Geographic Photo Ark project, a multi-year mission ...

A version of this story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The world’s largest bee may also be the planet’s most elusive. First discovered in 1859 by the ...