They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have ...

Prairie dogs spend a lot of time building and rebuilding these dwellings. Other animals benefit from their labors. Burrows may be shared by snakes, burrowing owls, and even rare black-footed ...

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

This animal's long slender body ... of its primary prey—the prairie dog. Though black-footed ferrets sometimes eat squirrels, mice, and other rodents, prairie dogs are essential to their ...

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic ... study of ancient animal remains—Ikram has helped launch a new line of research into the cats and other creatures that ...

With this interest has come the rise of DNA testing for our animal companions ... With dog DNA tests, an owner can receive information on a dog’s unique breed composition. Other metrics also ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic ... to training dogs to sniff out rare gorillas, scientists are taking extraordinary measures to save the animals they love.