A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem.

Creativity has long reigned in Swedish Lapland — where the Sámi historically used their ingenuity to survive the cold, dark ...

Futurist Michio Kaku sees humans doing ballet on Mars and projecting their brains into the cosmos. And aliens? Oh, they're ...

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf mantis species in which males avoid this fate with an elaborate dance ...

The gorilla moves with quiet majesty through Uganda’s highland forests, while across the country, communities are stepping up ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to their ancestral home. (And only one tried to escape.) Przewalski's horses once ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced.

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the ...

When the Berlin Wall went up overnight, National Geographic correspondents were on hand to document a city that became a place of, in their words, 'unreality.' ...

Niğmet and Ali are both from the village of Tekelioğlu, which abutted the lake. Niğmet fished in its waters, she reminisces, eating what she caught. Ali learned to swim in Marmara Lake when he was a ...

Polar bears lose sea ice due to climate change, forcing them to fast longer and lose body fat, leading to emaciation. The ...

National Geographic's annual Pictures of the Year issue features stunning wildlife photos highlighting endangered species and fragile ecosystems.