Child sacrifice was thought to be rare in their culture. This chilling discovery suggests foreign invaders played a role.

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. The outdoors can sometimes feel hostile for the queer community. That’s a conclusion Wyn Wiley reached as a kid at a summer camp run by the Boy ...

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This story is part of the National Geographic 33. Norton and Samson Parashina, president of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust The group does plenty of the things you might expect from a ...

Alicia Odewale, University of Houston professor, will spearhead a two-year project that chronicles Black heritage and resilience by mapping trees.

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Molecular analysis has determined that a jawbone recovered off Taiwan's coast came from a Denisovan, showing that this ...

His interest formed at a young age. Born in Hawaii, Momoa spent much of his childhood in small-town Iowa, where he lived with his mother. But even landlocked, he was extremely invested in aquatic ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full moon, and more.

Björk always seems to inhabit an alternate universe—a dreamlike space of the highest creative ambition, free from the constraints that govern mere mortals. Which makes it all the more jarring ...

Euclid, a European space telescope, just captured 26 million galaxies to reveal the secrets of the dark universe. The Euclid Space Telescope is focused on surveying about one-third of the night ...