With a message that is timely and essential, Neil Shubin delivers a compendium of both historical and very recent scientific ...

Do animals have siblings, aunties, or cousins? Can they survive without any family at all? Female gazelles, like this ...

After a relatively short conclave, our reporter was with the crowd in St. Peter's Square as they got their first glimpse of ...

They also can remain submerged for over 20 minutes. PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Image Collection By mid-December, as the Antarctic summer approaches, the chicks have started to ...

For the first time, bite marks made by a large cat, possibly an African lion, have been identified on the bones of what is ...