This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the ...

A thundering conservation success story, the park also harbors almost 1,300 wild elephants; 1,800 Asiatic wild water buffalo, the largest remaining population anywhere; perhaps 9,000 hog deer; 800 ...

Game scouts found this black rhino bull wandering Zimbabwe's Savé Valley Conservancy after poachers shot it several times and hacked off both its horns. Veterinarians had to euth ...

About 35 leopards live in and around this park. That’s an average of less than two square miles of habitat apiece, for animals that can easily range ten miles in a day. These leopards also live ...

Ruled by Hammurabi, restored by Nebuchadrezzar, conquered by Cyrus—this city in the heart of Mesopotamia was both desired and despised, placing it at the center stage of the dawn of history.

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter day in southern California, and busloads of tourists are pulling into an overlook above Beverly ...

Read this story and more in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a world that ... in the dark, oxygen-free environment of a commercial landfill or in the cool waters of the ...

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell are two of the world’s best climbers. Why did they add a 2,600-mile odyssey of biking, ...

Made up of six states, this region in the north east of the US is best known for its history and culture, but its coastal ...

National Geographic's team of experts and photographers compiled the newly released BEST OF THE WORLD 2025 list.

National Geographic plans to open a 100,000-square-foot museum in downtown D.C. by mid-2026, the organization announced ...

The National Geographic Museum of Exploration will be a 100,000-square-foot expansion to the organization's D.C. headquarters ...