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 ...

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For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

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

Before your visit, discover some of Earth's most captivating creatures found at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, like the ...

“During totality, many animals display behaviors connected with an early dusk,” says Babak Tafreshi, a National Geographic Explorer and science photojournalist who has documented 13 solar ...

If someone says “You’re glowing!” you may be in love. Or, more likely, you’re a marine animal. It’s a separate process from biofluorescence, in which blue light hits the surface of an ...

“We want this paper to encourage more research on these totally different species of monkeys in Asia,” says Andie Ang, a National Geographic explorer and research scientist at the Wildlife ...

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 ...

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 ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...