Scientists have been closely monitoring a map turtle population after 10 percent died in 2022. They found a surprising ...

Our writer spent 30 hours traveling with arctic wolves and gained a new appreciation for these predators of the tundra.

In his new National Geographic series Pole to Pole, the actor ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose ...

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Veronika, a cow living in an idyllic mountain village in the Austrian countryside, has spent years perfecting the art of ...

The Russian government takes action weeks after video footage showed the animals languishing in freezing waters.

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters. Sumatran tigersPanthera tigris ...

Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby, is suspending operations after 12 animals died. Why are racehorse deaths so ...