Twenty-eight Oregon seniors have won one of the most prestigious academic awards for high schoolers, the $2,500 National ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...

For decades, Himalayan brown bears have killed livestock and destroyed homes in this rural village. Residents are learning ...

The stunning nature reserve in Mozambique—known for its lions, elephants, and honeyguide birds, and home to some 70,000 ...

From hiking and biking to offbeat art and drive-in movies, the California desert park and its surroundings offer plenty of ...

For more than 30 years, the Pacific Rim Whale Festival has celebrated the arrival of migrating grey whales to Canada’s wild ...

This barrier will block wildlife ... of animals, including endangered jaguars and ocelots, along with mountain lions, black bears, coati, mule deer, and javelinas. The Coronado National ...

“We don't know how long they live or how fast they grow in the wild ... grant from the National Geographic Society to study the giants. As far as the record-breaking animal, it was likely ...

Hope, an Afghan hound, sports the same wild hair as her owner ... particularly those animals that work in roles vital to public safety such as search-and-rescue, police, and service dogs.

(Read how Mexican nuns are working to help wild axolotls.) In another experiment, DNA analysis revealed that regenerated axolotl limbs are considerably younger than the rest of the animal.

This story appears in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... livestock, and other wild animals. But this copacetic arrangement, shaped by the ages, is not immutable.

The National Geographic Society has announced that Mirte Bosse, biologist and geneticist at Wageningen University & Research ...