Photograph by Rob Reijnen / Minden Pictures Emperor penguins live up to their name as they rule the Antarctic roost. While Mom goes off on a months-long search for food to share with their ...

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This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Over six months, Arndt shot more than 60,000 pictures, creating a portrait of wild honeybees unlike anything seen ...

National Geographic's enterprising photographers have helped readers explore and learn about our beautiful world through their images for more than a century. Here is their best work from the past ...

This story features photos from the National Geographic Photo Ark. Buy Photo Ark books and merchandise here. This story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine.

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age, when it’s easy to manipulate a photo, it’s harder than ever to ensure that the images we publish ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. If birds left tracks in the sky, what would they look like? For years Barcelona-based photographer Xavi Bou has been ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... “It’s pretty amazing that these things can even hop or fly with this big thing they’re lugging around with ...