Despite the crew's attempts to free "Endurance" from the ice on February 14th and 15th, 1915, the ship was inextricably stuck. “What the ice gets, the ice keeps,” Shackleton once said.

In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures. On an ...

National Geographic engineer Arthur Clarke analyzed a nail from the wreck and found that it was ... But a national slave ship memorial—akin to the watery grave of the U.S.S. Arizona in Pearl ...

For the first time, Antarctic krill have been found on seafloor vents. One scientist is working to figure out what they are ...

Bringing with them the languages of their homelands, immigrants newly arrived by ship at Ellis Island await official ...

Twenty-four-hour neighbourhood festivals, a nine-mile-long street party and a whole year of revelry — Amsterdam is pulling ...

When the 160-year-old wreckage of the Clotilda, America’s last known slave ship, was positively identified in the murky waters of the Mobile River in 2019, that was enough for Joycelyn Davis ...

For sevendecades, Sir David Attenborough has traversed the globe to document the kaleidoscopic diversity of Earth’s ...

Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that ...

Exclusive: Inside the search for Amelia Earhart’s airplane. Many attempts have been made to discover the famed aviator's fate, but never with the technological tools at Robert Ballard's disposal.

Zombie-creating worms, a passionate Chilean poet, and honey-laden Viking ships share the stage in this modern comedy of manners. Stacks of past issues of National Geographic magazines against a ...

In 1822, freed Black Americans began resettling in a colony on the west coast of Africa. But the idea was controversial: Was this new land a place they could truly thrive or was this colony doomed to ...