From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

When healthy, anemones look like pink flowers blossoming on rocks and coral, and serve as homes for clownfish, made famous by ...

When Dwayne LaGrou asked Weird Animal Question of the Week what animals have the largest eyes for their body size, we were sure the answer would be guilty-looking dogs. The actual candidates proved to ...

Nighttime underwater photos show fish hanging out with jellyfish and anemones — perhaps seeking their protection.

A new documentary from National Geographic Pristine Seas and Oceans North spotlights how Inuit and Cree communities are ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an evolutionary urge to reach beyond their boundaries. Today, many are ...

Researchers are calling for the conservation of teeny tiny organisms that normally get overlooked, and conservationists are ...

Brazilian landscapes are known for their drama, with thundering waterfalls, rippling sand dunes and even a Grand Canyon all ...

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...