Photograph by Palaeodeserts Project While the prints aren’t easy to see ... led work on a trove of tracks in Tanzania as a National Geographic grantee. “And that’s something you often ...

This story appears in the March 2021 issue of National Geographic magazine. Jupiter is the king, Uranus is the comedian, Pluto is the underdog. But of all the planetary bodies in our solar system ...

For his photograph of this extraordinary phenomenon, called “Creation,” Ballesta, a frequent National Geographic photographer ... 24 hours 65 feet under the ocean while limiting the amount ...

“It’s hard to imagine a more wasteful way to catch fish,” says David Attenborough in the new documentary Ocean with David Attenborough, which premieres on National Geographic on ...

Published in the July/August 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries only).

National Geographic was granted special access to the years of work by architects, craftspeople, and scientists that has led to this moment. In the summer of 2021 I returned for the first time ...

New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some cravings feel impossible to resist. Cravings may feel impulsive, but new resea ...

Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, his second feature, left such a imprint on culture and Hollywood that barely any trip to the ...

The leading theory is the ancestors of these monkeys somehow rafted across the Atlantic Ocean between 40 and 32 million years ago. As new fossils have been discovered, however, the story’s ...

A major ice shelf—a protrusion of ice floating on the sea that prevents the ice sheet above from slipping into the ocean and melting ... Since 2005, National Geographic Explorer Zeb Hogan ...

They supposedly lurk in remote lakes, hide in dense forests, and roam snowy mountains. Yet despite being refuted by science, cryptids—fantastical beasts that probably don’t exist—have awed ...

And not just any photographs — National Geographic photographs ... The water in the north arm is eight times as salty as the ocean. Paralympian sprinter Jarryd Wallace’s bio­ mechanics ...