National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is halfway through a multiyear effort to document our planet’s incredible ...

The annual Great Migration of millions of wildebeest and zebras across the plains of the Serengeti is one of the world’s ...

According to NatureServe, an organization that keeps tabs on North American flora and fauna, more than 7,000 of those species ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...

Following old military roads through pine forests and barren moorland, hikers trace centuries of lore while experiencing a ...

The incomplete skull of Nicrosaurus (formerly “Belodon“), one of the earliest-recognized phytosaurs. It is missing teeth and it did not have an extended downward extension of the palate (the outline ...

The Red Sea was thought to host ecosystems resilient to warming waters, but a 2023 heatwave proves otherwise. A juvenile Red Sea anemonefish, also called a clownfish, looks out from between the ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was it? A sixth-century Byzantine mosaic depicts an amphibious monster—though ...

In a small town in Oregon when a father wolf went missing recently, no details were available about his death. All that’s known is that someone killed him, and, based on previous cases, it’s unlikely ...

When a fish approaches a shrimp and holds its body very still—called posing—the shrimp then wave their antennae, signaling ...

Not long ago, Galveston Island Brewing threw a launch party for Ghost Coast, its red lager named in honor of the so-called ...

New videos reveal the surprising dynamics of bat-rat relationships—and suggest how human activity is fueling these interspecies conflicts.