This is Banff National Park, one of the most beautiful ... communications manager for Tourism Golden. “For people that are looking for that mountain town that is still a little tucked away ...

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

The earthly remains of most of history’s 266 popes (plus some European royals) are buried in Rome—in dozens of catacombs and cemeteries in, under, and around the city. Remains of a sprawling ...

The prehistoric crocodile relative may have tolerated both freshwater and saltwater habitats, allowing it to conquer North American coasts in the Cretaceous. Paleontologists have been on the trail ...

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They also can remain submerged for over 20 minutes. PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Image Collection By mid-December, as the Antarctic summer approaches, the chicks have started to ...

San Diego’s breadth of diverse ecosystems still encourages community gatherings. Locals often take to these same green spaces ...

asked the 78-year-old director of the University of Washington’s Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and a National Geographic Explorer ... What’s more, the photos help document periods in ...

As the least-visited national ... taking photos and creating information to be shared with the public,” says Karen Bacula, the Institute’s director. “We hiked, canoed and camped; people ...

Wildlife filmmaker Bertie Gregory helped choose the winners of the challenge, saying the collection is proof of how lucky we ...

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) collects data at the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO ... Since DESI’s results have come out, though, people have been asking how that picture ...