PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Image Collection By mid ... On her last assignment for the magazine, she tracked whooping cranes from Canada to Texas. Bertie Gregory, a Bristol ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Based in Syracuse, New York, National Geographic Explorer Amy Toensing photographed communities and paddlers ...

As a food source flowering plants provide us and the rest of the animal world with the nourishment that is fundamental to our existence. In the words of Walter Judd, a botanist at the University ...

When observed by the scientists, the animals were paired up, suggesting that they are monogamous, which is extremely unusual ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ... On the other hand, animal bones from trash heaps suggest an abrupt dietary switch from fish and ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Just before dusk ... Buyers choose animals at the livestock market and send them to this slaughterhouse in Agadez ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four ...

Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they survive without any family at all? Female gazelles, like this ...

For our new study, we reviewed the literature on the movements of marine migratory species from 1990 to 2017. We synthesised ...

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This story appears in the June 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On Thursday, September 1, 1859, a 33-year-old brewer and amateur astronomer named Richard Carrington climbed the stairs ...