This story first appeared in the August 1963 issue of National Geographic magazine. Up on the mountains the midday sun glared fiercely, but down in the valley near the swift-running stream it was ...

Check out our coverage on species revival, the topic of a Friday TEDx talk at National Geographic. In the movie Jurassic Park, a tree extinct for millions of years delights the paleobotanist.

I am very proud to be a son of Socotra.” 1 of 8 Ella Al-Shamahi, a paleonanthropologist and National Geographic Emerging Explorer, stands on the deck of the wooden cargo ship that took her and ...

For his photograph of this extraordinary phenomenon, called “Creation,” Ballesta, a frequent National Geographic photographer, has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I’ve come back to check on a baby. Just after dusk I’m in a car lumbering down a muddy road in the rain, past rows of ...

A flash of electric blue—that's as intimately as most people will ever know the common kingfisher. But it suffices. . "Everyone in England who has ever seen one will remember where they saw it ...