From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

Dian Fossey transformed our view of mountain gorillas while fighting to save them. But she was also a flawed obsessive whose ...

From the icy fields of Antarctica to the depths of the Amazon, Will Smith joins scientists and local experts working on world ...

These ancient trees persisted for nearly 200 million years until they all but vanished. Now they line city streets.

It's the season for bundling up for a walk under the holiday lights. Join us on a coast-to-coast tour of the nation's most ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

The tires crunched over the red earth as we approached Akagera National Park, and the instant smell of wet grass and dust brought a childhood memory. I was back in Primary Six, thinking of the class ...

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 ...

National Geographic Explorer Ronan Donovan, a wildlife biologist turned conservation photographer, will be coming to 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 ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to their ancestral home. (And only one tried to escape.) Przewalski's horses once ...