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This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Shortly after dawn two mountain gorillas swing gracefully over the shoulder-high stone wall that borders Volcanoes ...

This story appears in the September 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Underneath Rome’s Oppian Hill, today a modest public park marred by unclever graffiti, where young men idly kick ...

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This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the day Christian Guardino was born, his mother, Elizabeth, knew that something was wrong with his eyes.

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This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For sheer breadth of freakish anatomical features, the chameleon has few rivals. A tongue far longer than its body ...

This story appears in the September 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Before, it was inconceivable: risk-free biomedical testing on living human organs. But new “organs-on-chips ...

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala.