What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

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Human activities such as agriculture, logging, and urbanization are increasingly encroaching on the habitats of great apes.

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

Busting myths; how a drop of water changed a girl’s life; a tribe’s respect for fishes; and more: picks from columnist.

National Geographic's upcoming docuseries, 'Secrets of the Penguins,' captured a shocking encounter between a mother rockhopper penguin and giant, hungry sea lion, and PEOPLE has a first look at the f ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...