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 edge of ...

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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 ...

Animal and cell studies suggest that consuming hops could provide a range of health benefits, but human studies are sparse.

In 1933, two eye-witness claimed to have seen a prehistoric-like animal in the waters of a Scottish lake. In the following ...

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 ...

The Romans had a serious trash problem, though by our standards it was good-looking trash. Their problem was amphorae. They needed millions of the curvy clay jars to ship wine, olive oil, and fish ...

The ability to extend your joints past their normal range of motion isn’t just a harmless party trick—you may be at risk for ...

Gait changes. Fallen arches. A whole new shoe size. Many women experience these transformations during pregnancy, but the ...

From Nigeria to Senegal and everywhere in between, West Africa is home to a rich culinary culture that transcends national ...

Along Queensland’s Great Barrier Reef, curious visitors can witness an innovative new coral restoration project and help ...

Abandoned at an airport in China, then adopted by a photographer, Piggy the piglet grew up in front of the camera—and changed ...