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We’ve got your daily fix of adorable baby animal photos
Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...
‘Sharktopus’ wasn’t the first. These animals also hitchhike on other animals.
Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...
What the ‘trash heap’ penguins of Argentina are teaching us about survival
For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...
Researchers find oldest ant known to science—113-million-year-old ‘hell ant’ with scythe jaws
This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.
Wildlife Expert Shares the 'Ridiculous' Animal Encounter He Caught on Film for the First Time (Exclusive)
Secrets of the Penguins cinematographer, Bertie Gregory, shares the memorable moment he filmed baby penguins leaping from a 50-foot cliff with PEOPLE.
The world’s rarest penguins don’t fear the heat. Here's how they learned to embrace it.
These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...