Palaeontologist Sarah Gabbott explains what’s so unusual about her discovery, which she named as part of the process of ...

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.

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 example, to feed its young, it scavenges small pathogen-laden dead animals like mice ... this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. The nonprofit National ...

Both animals occupy fissures in the coastline ... of Washington’s Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and a National Geographic Explorer. “They’re comical, they’re curious, they’re endearing.” ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Based in Syracuse, New York, National Geographic Explorer Amy Toensing photographed communities and paddlers ...

Tulane University archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer Francisco Estrada-Belli, who was also not involved in the new study, says some scholars have proposed Tikal was ruled after this by ...

PHOTOGRAPH BY THOMAS PESCHAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE COLLECTION Borboroglu ... he says of penguins as a whole. “They’re amazing.” A Galápagos penguin swims alongside a green sea turtle ...

A tent is pitched underneath the northern lights at Gates of the Arctic, the northernmost national park in the United States. This region of Alaska is among the best places on Earth for viewing ...

an ecologist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. That means that getting from one place to another comes with big stakes for the animal and its ecosystem. In 2020, Bartlow ...

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