But scientists are looking more closely at how kids’ diets influence their gut health—and how that might affect everything from mood to mental health to cognitive development. Just like an ...

An epigenetic clock estimates an animal’s age based on how life events ... at the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico City.

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which was created by National Geographic Explorers in Residence Dereck and Beverly Joubert in 2013. “It just shows that if these animals are given half a chance to continue, they can still eke ...

Bender hopes her study will help people understand dogs even better, particularly those animals that work in roles vital to public safety such as search-and-rescue, police, and service dogs.

It’s hard to study animals at this depth in the cold, since they spend a lot of time in a habitat “on the continental shelf to the deep sea,” says Matthew Davis, a professor of biological ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

The presence of reindeer and mastodon, big animals that eat a lot, means the landscape was highly productive. The team didn’t find any genetic traces of carnivores, a vital piece of a complete ...

In our Endangered Animals lesson, students will discover what it means to be at risk for extinction and about currently ...

when she received her first grant from the National Geographic Society to study the giants. As far as the record-breaking animal, it was likely female and 20 years old or more, says Thys ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic ... makes all this awesome—even for me, after six years of witnessing such incidents—is that Koko, by all accepted concepts of animal and human ...

The new refuge will let the animals choose among different landscapes—including wetlands, grasslands, and woodlands—and will be speckled with 11 waterholes, each big enough for the elephants ...