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

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

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to ...

Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded ...

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

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

The Argentinian marine biologist and conservationist has spent the past 36 years championing the world’s penguins and their ...

This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... and transport, these Andean animals were among the Chimú’s most valuable assets. And finally there was this ...