Coming for the 2025-2026 season, the National Geographic Live series features three speakers who will share behind-the-scenes ...

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

A sea kayaking journey through the Johnstone Strait offers eye-to-eye encounters with orcas, humpbacks and sea lions.

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.

Hidden beneath the waters surrounding Japan’s Yonaguni island are the towering ruins of a 10,000-year-old city built by a ...

Nestled in the eastern Pacific Ocean some 1,000km off the coast of Ecuador, the Galapagos Islands are as otherworldly and ...

LEAP OF FAITHHundreds of emperor juveniles survived jumping into the sea from a 50-foot ice shelf ... PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Image Collection By mid-December, as the ...

Sea turtles are fascinating creatures of the ocean. They’re very famous for their mass egg hatchings on beaches, so it’s easy ...

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 ... the ocean. “How could you not fall in love with these birds?” asked the 78-year-old director of the University of Washington’s Center for Ecosystem Sentinels and a National ...

While Magellanic penguins are known to breed in and around South America on rocky, sandy beaches before migrating each winter to the open ocean as ... THOMAS PESCHAK, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC IMAGE ...