National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Enric ... Ikummaq tells me the names for a few Arctic animals. An aarluk—“kills everything”—is a killer whale; a tingugliktuq—“bad liver, ...

But at National Geographic’s request ... A few hundred beavers won’t reengineer the Arctic. But the animals may be heading north in Canada and Siberia too, and they reproduce quickly.

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... halfway between Norway and the North Pole, a flock of arctic terns soar and wheel in the perpetual daylight.

Great horned owls are adaptable birds and live from the Arctic to South America ... and use their powerful talons to kill and carry animals several times heavier than themselves.

A sneak peak of a new episode of National Geographic's Incredible Animal Journeys shows two polar ... it is their first time experiencing the Arctic outdoors. "She leads them into a new world ...

This story appears in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... These spectacular-looking animals stand more than a yard tall, with wingspans of nine feet.