If you've never been on safari before, this Tanzanian park - home to big cats, elephants and antelopes galore - is a great ...

Filmmaker Bertie Gregory's new documentary special captures the extreme challenges facing the world's fastest land animal.

The National Geographic Endurance is a comfortable base for explorations in icy waters, whether in the Arctic or in the ...

Their unusual story began about a hundred years ago. Now, as they head to the high north, an ambitious new chapter is being written. East of the Mackenzie River, in the Canadian Arctic, a free-ranging ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem.

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

A sperm whale floats amid shards of polar pack ice, dead and decomposing, mouth hanging open. When photographer Roie Galitz captured the scene with a drone, the image was so arresting that it took a ...

President Trump vowed that the gunman who shot two National Guard troops would “pay a very steep price” and announced that both were “critically wounded.” “The animal that shot the two National ...

President Trump lashed out Wednesday at the suspect who shot two members of the National Guard just blocks from the White House. “The animal that shot the two National Guardsmen, with both being ...

WASHINGTON, DC – NOVEMBER 26: National Guard soldiers respond to a shooting near the White House that killed two National Guardsmen. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) President Donald Trump eviscerated ...

The Smithsonian National Zoo in D.C. is preparing for the birth of a large “charismatic and charming” animal: an Asian elephant calf. Zoo officials announced Monday morning that an Asian elephant is ...