When Dwayne LaGrou asked Weird Animal Question of the Week what animals have the largest eyes for their body size, we were ...

Prioritizing which animals and plants to help is driven mostly by whether we like them or not. Some experts say that may not ...

See photos of sea creatures that have unusual defense mechanisms in this oceans life photo gallery from National Geographic.

On the 50th anniversary of the upheaval, we look at images that one brave photographer hid from the government.

After years of planning, the mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully descended the narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an ...

New weather stations are helping California forecasters better predict flooding from damaging storms called the 'pineapple ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

The winners of the 51st annual Nikon Small World photo contest offer a glimpse at some of the tiniest—and most ...

Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. Documenting the ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Eva zu Beck searches the globe for experiences that will push her limits.

Women have been barred from most public spaces. Afghan citizens are being deported by nearby countries. And marginalized ...