In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

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, ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

From giant stick bugs to rarely seen sea creatures, these animal videos fascinated us—and led to new scientific discoveries. An orca calf and adult swim in the Norwegian fjords. Orcas have been among ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

The pandas at the Washington National Zoo are welcoming a blast of winter weather. Watch them play in the snow. Suspected Brown University gunman found dead Taylor Swift's Christmas card is here—and ...

D.C.'s giant pandas Bao Li and Qing Bao enjoyed a long-awaited snow day over the weekend. Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute shared Panda Cam footage of the bears' day ...

These snapshots of Bao Li and Qing Bao capture the pair’s cutest moments, from playing in the snow to celebrating their 4th birthdays Meilan Solly - Senior Associate Digital Editor, History Bao Li ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

Discover the charming and elusive red panda in this captivating close-up video. The footage provides a detailed view of the animal's face, highlighting its striking reddish-brown fur, distinctive ...

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