While the 21st century has been bumpy, it has also ushered in monumental scientific and technological breakthroughs that have ...

Landscapes, animals, wildlife... National Geographic publishes the most striking shots of 2025. Striking images that put us in mind of the beauty and fragility of nature.

The gorilla moves with quiet majesty through Uganda’s highland forests, while across the country, communities are stepping up ...

The first step for novices, Tan says, is simply to get outside and look around. You can start by taking note of the birds you ...

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 ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a ...

There’s perhaps no more fascinating Bay Area day trip than hanging with the bellowing animals of Año Nuevo State Park.

Moaning Myrtle Actor Shirley Henderson Was 37 When She Auditioned for 14-Year-Old ‘Harry Potter' Character and Thought: ‘This Is Ridiculous' ...

As the first National Geographic Pristine Seas expedition in Papua New Guinea winds down and all of the field equipment and ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

Hybrid animals sound like science fiction, but many of them are completely real. Some are born from natural mating between similar species, while others are the result of scientific experiments that ...