Before your visit, discover some of Earth's most captivating creatures found at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, like the ...

“We don't know how long they live or how fast they grow in the wild,” says Tierney Thys, a marine biologist with the California Academy of Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.

An ambitious plan to return grasslands to the wild splendor of the past faces ... (see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society.) In the 19 years since, the group has raised $160 million ...

Photograph by Amy Toensing, National Geographic Image Collection But do any of these inflammation-hacking techniques help accelerate healing? Evidence is both promising and murky, with some ...

And they’re likely to live better. Lack of mobility is one of the top reasons that seniors lose independence, according to the National Institute on Aging, and it’s also closely linked to ...

Climate change has inexorably stacked the deck in favor of bigger and more intense fires across the American West over the past few decades, science has incontrovertibly shown. Increasing heat ...

As spring begins, so does a fresh song at daybreak, unique to the season. Just before the sun rises, birds start singing their melodies, creating a chirpy symphony. “It's the epitome of spring ...

The mask can be seen today at the National Museum, Quito ... But reality often belied the wild imaginings of the Spanish conquistadores. Hernán Cortés, having overthrown Aztec Mexico, seized ...

If a wild area where researchers know a firefly population used to live now has been urbanized, they can now assume that population is declining or gone. Fireflies hover in the mountains over ...

“We want this paper to encourage more research on these totally different species of monkeys in Asia,” says Andie Ang, a National Geographic explorer and research scientist at the Wildlife ...

A study of long-distance runners shows the brain’s remarkable ability to adapt—by burning its own fat. A marathon taxes more than just muscles—it pushes the brain to its metabolic limits ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.