This is part of a broader mission from iNaturalist and other nature-centric citizen science apps such as eBird and Zooniverse ...

A scientist examines an axolotl x-ray at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City. What’s more, understanding axolotl genetics could ...

Spending time in nature is important for your mental health. But studies show that even just listening to birds singing can ease symptoms of anxiety and depression. A European robin, Erithacus ...

A new study finds that microplastics and nanoplastics accumulate at higher levels in the brain than in the liver and kidney. A colorized computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain revealing blood ...

Taking a blobfish out of water is like “heating something that’s glued together and the glue starts to melt.” The blobfish went viral with this photo, but underwater they look like a ...

Once on the brink of extinction, American alligators have made a remarkable comeback in Alabama. Thanks to stringent ...

At 6,049 pounds, the mola weighed more than the full starting lineup of an American football team ... California Academy of Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer. “We also don't have ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations ... monitored Koko's progress since I began to teach her American Sign Language in July 1972. Of course such subjective ...

But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Aaron Micallef's work.

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has ... with cod that measured up to five feet long. Before the American Revolution began, giant lobsters and thick schools of fish would have had ...

From mysterious colossal squid to the ferocious pram bug, these creatures are stranger than fiction. Found in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, the flower hat jellyfish (Olindias formosa) glides ...

As scientists question the rise in early colon cancer cases, a new study is offering some potential answers. Colored scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of a macrophage white blood cell (center ...