Individual smarts don't matter as much as being sensitive to others when making group-based decisions, a new study finds.

"Big and fat and healthy-looking." Expert captures video of massive, elusive reptile in national park: 'A rare sighting' ...

Last year, at the Seattle Zoo, kiddos from the viewing tank of the grizzly bear exhibit got a real-life taste of how the food ...

Step out of a helicopter onto a never-before-seen island in Antarctica’s distant south during this expert-led tour around ...

Explore the mechanics behind elevators, including the cables, locks, and systems that lift us every day. This video features ...

The 'mythical' creature, one of the rarest species in the world, was seen in jaw-dropping footage sitting calmly in the ...

The two — in collaboration with the ocean food advocacy nonprofit Fed by Blue — have combined for “The Blue Food Cookbook: Delicious Recipes for a Sustainable Future," part cookbook and part ...

Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. Documenting the aftermath requires a new approach as well. In a conventional photograph of ...

The Red Sea was thought to host ecosystems resilient to warming waters, but a 2023 heatwave proves otherwise. A juvenile Red Sea anemonefish, also called a clownfish, looks out from between the ...

Many unexpected human artifacts have been preserved, for centuries, in vulture nests. This sandal woven from grasses and twigs, called an agobía, is somewhere between 727 and 771 years old, ...

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 ...

Maynard Owen Williams was National Geographic's first foreign correspondent, and in 1923 he was on hand for an event the entire world was eagerly anticipating—the opening of King Tut's burial chamber.