It’s already baffling how many incredible and strange creatures can be found on planet Earth, with there being well over 8 ...

If you’ve ever seen an elephant or a giraffe up close, you know those animals can seem massive, but would you believe that ...

After a century-long absence, the elusive South American tapir has reemerged, sparking hope and excitement among ...

But that didn’t stop it from going extinct. An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's ...

The Nicobar Islands are a biodiversity hotspot, home to unique species found nowhere else. Long isolated, these islands have ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Instead of studying extinct animals by analyzing the shape of their ... “She was probably the biggest critic” of de-extinction, Froese said. Her thinking began to shift while writing the ...

Scientists put their “stamp” on prehistory after discovering a massive dinosaur footprint in Mongolia said to have belonged to one of the largest two-legged animals ever to roam the Earth.

With threats of avian flu and lead poisoning, biologists are working overtime to care for a species that nearly went extinct.

South America's largest land mammal has made ... Forest for over 100 years and was considered extinct in Brazil's coastal region. Scientists were happy to be proven wrong. AS reported on the ...

That’s half the time span since the dinosaurs went extinct, so it’s an awfully long ... if it was the biggest ichthyosaur ever. If it was the biggest ichthyosaur ever, it was the biggest animal ever.” ...