From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

Sartore is a National Geographic Explorer, wildlife photographer, and conservationist. In 2006, Sartore founded the Photo Ark project to show the world the beauty of biodiversity and inspire ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations With a Gorilla," our October 1978 cover story written by Francine Patterson, the psychologist who taught Koko how to sign.

There is the partnership between photographers, writers, and story teams in the office, who collaborate to bring a National Geographic story ... story on subsistence hunting and climate change ...

The bounty of the Gulf of Maine. The sea within a sea, as it’s often called, is a body of water that extends 36,000 square miles along the eastern seaboard of North America, from Cape Cod ...

If someone says “You’re glowing!” you may be in love. Or, more likely, you’re a marine animal. It’s a separate process from biofluorescence, in which blue light hits the surface of an ...

“We want this paper to encourage more research on these totally different species of monkeys in Asia,” says Andie Ang, a National Geographic explorer and research scientist at the Wildlife ...

“We don't know how long they live or how fast they grow in the wild,” says Tierney Thys, a marine biologist with the California Academy of Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.

But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Aaron Micallef's work.

Revive and Restore scientist Ben Novak visited Elizabeth Ann at the National Black-footed Ferret ... ferrets must show that they are capable of hunting prairie dogs and have the other necessary ...

Afterward, he traveled to the Patanangala beach inside Yala National Park, where some 60 visitors were washed away. The beach was one of the worst hit areas of the 500-square-mile (1,300-square ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...