The Texas coastline is seeing a rare and unusual sight: thousands of mysterious sea creatures washing ashore after what ...

In the last two years, National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek traversed the Chinese countryside, marched along the Korean Demilitarized Zone and fended off grizzly bears in Alaska. Now, his ...

Climate change is speeding the spread of global pathogens. Can an early-warning system for animal viruses help stop pandemics before they start? During an expedition to the Southern Ocean, microbial ...

'Thousands and thousands' of these curious creatures have been showing up on the Texas shoreline, expert says. What are they?

Selecting the best travel images from a year’s worth of fantastic photography is quite a challenge when the photographers have travelled to all corners of the world to document features for National ...

From giant stick bugs to rarely seen sea creatures, these animal videos fascinated us—and led to new scientific discoveries. An orca calf and adult swim in the Norwegian fjords. Orcas have been among ...

With a growing number of tour operators and cruise lines offering intrepid family voyages, expedition cruising is no longer just for grown-ups. From following in the footsteps of Charles Darwin in the ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Kim Knor has the kind of biography Hollywood blockbusters are made of—and has just notched a new milestone in her quest to keep living life to the fullest. 86-year-old Kim Knor completes her 1,000th ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ever sequenced. A mosaic death mask believed to have belonged to the Maya ...

From a garden at the Holy Sepulchre to new dates for the Dead Sea Scrolls, new research is offering detailed glimpses into biblical stories. The shrine that houses the traditional burial place of ...

If travel in 2026 has a defining mood, it’s immersion — the kind of adventures that stir something deeper within us, and that linger long after we leave a destination. And the data backs it up. UN ...