In order to understand the massive changes afoot in the warming polar regions, oceanographer Allison Fong is hunting for the ...

And they find one: a female green anaconda about 16 to 17 feet long, “pure muscle.” The Waorani secure the giant ...

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

The December issue of the magazine highlights 25 images chosen by editors as the most poignant and stirring photographs of 2025. Amazon's winter sale is overflowing with New Year's deals on brands ...

A look at National Geographic's 'Picture of the Year' The December issue of the magazine highlights 25 images chosen by editors as the most poignant and stirring photographs of 2025.

By Rhett Ayers Butler [( For much of the second half of the 20th century, the American outdoors attracted a particular kind of devotee. They moved easily between disciplines, took seasonal work ...

Day and night, a ballet of sorts unfolds at the Seattle Aquarium. Behind panes of glass and rocky walls, schools of fish glide elegantly between each other, a tiny seahorse unfurls its coiled tail and ...

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

The opportunity to solidify US influence and trade integration in the Caucasus won’t last forever. Azerbaijan sits in one of the world’s roughest neighborhoods, squeezed between Russia to the north ...

The agenda included close encounters with sharks, rays, manatees, penguins, sea otters, octopuses, coral reef and more as a group of public officials, community members and Mote Marine Laboratory ...

Pacific University Professor of Psychology Heide Island has been awarded a $12,000 grant that will aid efforts to reintroduce sea otters to the Oregon Coast. Island received the grant from The Oregon ...

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions will retire two vessels built in the 1980s and charter an Aurora Expeditions ship for three years, starting in 2027. The chartered ship, the Greg Mortimer, ...