According to NatureServe, an organization that keeps tabs on North American flora and fauna, more than 7,000 of those species ...

The annual Great Migration of millions of wildebeest and zebras across the plains of the Serengeti is one of the world’s ...

Descendants of theme-park escapees, a population of rhesus macaques in a Florida state park may soon double in size—a recipe ...

In Panama, jaguars in fragmented territory have clashed with local ranchers and livestock. Now a National Geographic Explorer ...

In a study based on measurements of the bite force of living crocodilians, researchers have concluded that the ancient Sarcosuchus imperator "SuperCroc" had jaws of steel that no prey not even small ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological ...

When a fish approaches a shrimp and holds its body very still—called posing—the shrimp then wave their antennae, signaling ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

Living outside their natural Chinese habitat can disturb giant pandas’ internal rhythms, a finding that could lead to better ...

The other is that snakes don’t gather in general, since people tend to only come across one snake at a time. “So there was ...

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is halfway through a multiyear effort to document our planet’s incredible ...

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