These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

Unfortunately, this isn't the first time experts have discussed the problem of animals consuming plastics left on roadsides.

Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters.

A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks. Great white ...

A rancher took a backhoe to a critical nesting ground. His conviction, advocates say, “sets a crucial precedent for ...

It’s the middle of dinner service at Bo.lan restaurant in Bangkok and our table for two is packed with all the dishes that ...

These emperor penguin chicks showed extreme bravery in the new Secrets of the Penguins documentary through National ...

A one-foot-long baby squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented ...

In 2013, the blobfish was voted World’s Ugliest Animalby theUgly Animal Preservation Society in an effort to get some ...

The eastern U.S. is about to be inundated with trillions of Brood XIV periodical cicadas—which were first documented by the ...