The engineering and defensive skills of red wood ants help the endangered species transcend its small stature in the natural world.

Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...

When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

Linking Delhi, the Taj Mahal and the pink city of Jaipur, with detours for temples and tigers, this is the perfect route for ...

(Explore the hidden world of whale culture ... Garland, who is also a National Geographic Explorer, has listened to hundreds of hours of whale songs for hundreds of hours and use short pauses ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat ... 2006 when he began making studio portraits of animals in captivity. The purpose: to capture ...

The cardboard pet carrier rested on a patch of desert grass with a towel draped over it, while an animal rescuer ... writer's first piece for National Geographic magazine. A Pulitzer Prize ...

“Amphibians are the most threatened group of vertebrate animals on Earth ... the frogs became an invasive species in Hawaii, likely hidden in travelers’ luggage. “It seems that the coquí ...

Photographed at the U.S. National Library of Medicine This story appears in the January 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... to drain their fluids. Animal welfare groups decry the ...