You do not want to get on a hippopotamus’s bad side — it could be the last thing you do! These huge mammals can become ...

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 ...

A spokesperson for the Consumer Healthcare Products Association—an organization that represents the over-the-counter medicine industry—told National Geographic that “it’s important to ...

Potatoes were once so despised they were linked to leprosy. What changed? It's a tale of propaganda, survival, and ordinary ...

The adventurer and TV presenter chats to Lara Kilner about the appeal of a ‘normal’ job now he is a father to three young children – and why he loves exploring ...

Scientists suspect many species are in decline—but there are still unanswered questions and a lot of hope. Here's when and where you can still spot them. Experts say a "concerning" number of ...

Photograph by James Smith, National Geographic for Disney+ The expedition team celebrate Greenland guide Adam Kjeldsen's 40th birthday after a day of trekking across the Renland Ice Cap.

An expedition in the Southern Ocean captured video of a rare species of deep-sea cephalopod. Until now, it had been found only in fishing nets and in the bellies of seabirds.

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

Oldowan artifacts were found among fossilized hippopotamus skeletons at the Nyayanga site. Photograph by T.W. Plummer, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project “Nobody’s saying that they ...

The Gonatus antarcticus squid, found only in the waters around Antarctica, was spotted at a depth of approx. 2152 meters in ...