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 ...

Revive and Restore scientist Ben Novak visited Elizabeth Ann at the National Black-footed Ferret Conservation Center on December 31, 2020. She is three weeks old in these photos. Photograph ...

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

The hidden wonders of long-vanished cities that once housed kings and hummed with everyday life are being rediscovered thanks to modern-day archaeology. Tel Megiddo in Israel holds the outlines of ...

Sartore is a National Geographic Explorer, wildlife photographer, and conservationist. In 2006, Sartore founded the Photo Ark project to show the world the beauty of biodiversity and inspire ...

“We don't know how long they live or how fast they grow in the wild,” says Tierney Thys, a marine biologist with the California Academy of Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.

Yet today Vlad III is something of a national hero in Romania ... who spent his youth at the court of Sigismund of Luxembourg, king of Hungary and future Holy Roman emperor.

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations With a Gorilla," our October 1978 cover story written by Francine Patterson, the psychologist who taught Koko how to sign.

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.