For an alternative to the fast-paced capital and its crowded tourist haunts, consider the country’s small towns, shaped by ...

Whether it’s an emperor penguin launching from the sea, a playful Adélie penguin or a colony of king penguins, these globe-spanning seabirds inspire awe and conservation.

Twenty years later and armed with a faster camera, Wothe captured the magical moment a white-throated dipper crashed through ...

Sam Abell said he doesn’t exactly seek out danger, but he’s learned that it’s often there, right beside the kind of strange ...

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 ...

The thin air above cloud level. The views over snow-tipped mountains. The climbs over boulder and scree, and the first gasp ...

San Diego’s breadth of diverse ecosystems still encourages community gatherings. Locals often take to these same green spaces ...

The German Society for Nature Photography has unveiled the winning images of its annual members-only photo competition, ...

asked the 78-year-old director of the University of Washington’s Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and a National Geographic Explorer ... s penguins became nature’s daredevils.

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The find challenges the idea that Teotihuacan’s influence at Tikal was gentle and mainly through trade: “This has a highly intrusive and violent nature to it,” Houston says. Archaeologists ...

A deep and exclusive look inside National Geographic's ambitious Secrets of the Penguins with host Bertie Gregory.