The National Geographic Society’s CEO reflects on its long history of global exploration and invites a future inspiring the ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives.

The researchers described the scene in a recent publication, calling it “an extraordinary colonial spider community.” The ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is ...

Less than a century after it was rediscovered, National Geographic's correspondent explored the ruins of Petra and found its ...

“Redheads are not going extinct,” says Katerina Zorina-Lichtenwalter, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Behavioral ...

The largest museum of its kind in the Middle East opens today with an awe-inspiring dinosaur wing, a massive blue whale skeleton within arm's reach, and a stunning exploration of the region’s natural ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from ...

For most families, it’s a once-in-a-lifetime splurge trip — one best appreciated by kids over seven, who can manage the ...

A new analysis aims to answer a longstanding question about why the plague reached Europe when it did—and why it spread so ...

This month will bring some striking celestial sights, including one of the year’s best meteor showers and a glowing ...