While the birth is sparking joy, infant mountain gorillas are vulnerable, and twins can be twice as hard for a mother to take ...
You may have a different list of National Geographic photos that spoke most strongly to you over the past 10 years. There are, of course, no “right” answers—just images that matter to you, that touch ...
The twins were born to a 22-year-old female named Mafuko, who lost her own mother to armed individuals. The extremely endangered species currently numbers at just over 1,000.
The endangered big cats are hanging on in Russia, the first country-wide survey of the animal suggests, while scientists and ...
Mating calls and rituals can be intercepted, or drowned out, by invasive species. Scientists are just starting to understand ...
Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...
Preserved by dry, cool air and darkness, the cheetah mummies are offering scientists DNA insights into a lost population and ...
After reviewing recent genetic, morphological, and biogeographic studies on giraffes, scientists have now split the single ...
Gray wolves were removed from north-central Utah earlier this month in one of the first reported removals in 16 years.
Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to broaden the gene pool ...
Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff ...
Volcanic rock at the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument filters rain and snowmelt into an underground aquifer network that ...