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Remains of an ancient Arctic rhino indicate that land mammals traversed the North Atlantic via land bridges, and did so much more recently than previously thought.

Despite its decade-spanning architecture, Michelin-awarded restaurants and sprawling green spaces, Warsaw is an unsung ...

Captive wild animal encounters are hugely popular, thanks partly to social media. But our investigation shows many creatures ...

You may have a different list of National Geographic photos that spoke most strongly to you over the past 10 years. There are, of course, no “right” answers—just images that matter to you, that touch ...

In Churchill, Canada, polar bears gather by the hundreds in the fall, waiting for the nearby bay to freeze. The human ...

"With enough butter, anything is good," quipped Julia Child. Today's food lovers are just as smitten—and so is our writer, who set out on a quest across France to find the holy grail.

In the rugged terrain where Mexico and the United States meet, a border wall is just the latest obstacle fragmenting habitats and disrupting migration paths. Here’s how a cadre of conservationists is ...

The 67,800-year-old hand stencil looks like a claw—and provides new clues about early human cognition and the migration to ...

The discovery comes from limestone caves on the island of Sulawesi. Here, faint red hand stencils, created by blowing pigment ...

After embarking on a globe-trotting adventure across the seven continents to seek out the most remote stories out there from pole to pole, Will Smith is sharing the inspiration behind the new Nat Geo ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...