Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough ...

Using drones and cameras attached to the orcas, scientists have finally been able to learn something about the interaction ...

By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to solve scientific mysteries.

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf ...

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages. Found across every continent except ...

He photographed the darkly colored, paperclip-size tadpoles in Cedar Lake, part of Canada’s Vancouver Island. “The challenge was to get the camera-to-subject distance just right and light them well ...

Dim the lights, put on some slow jams... get up in the tree? National Geographic's Crittercam technology just revealed a mating ritual never before seen in any bear species. An Andean bear named Ruru ...

From sharks to bats to lions, these researchers are showing their local communities the importance of these often misunderstood species to their ecosytems. Lemon sharks (pictured in the Bahamas) are ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters. Sumatran tigersPanthera tigris ...

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 ...