From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

National Geographic's annual Pictures of the Year issue features stunning wildlife photos highlighting endangered species and fragile ecosystems.

Landscapes, animals, wildlife... National Geographic publishes the most striking shots of 2025. Striking images that put us in mind of the beauty and fragility of nature.

This year Millsaps College marked the 25th anniversary of its groundbreaking Millsaps Yucatan Program, a transformative initiative that has redefined study abroad through deep cultural immersion, ...

The year 2025 might be seen as one of backsliding when it comes to tackling the environmental crises that face our planet.

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

The spots gave it away. Just like a human fingerprint, the rosette pattern on each jaguar is unique so researchers knew they had a new animal on their hands after reviewing images captured by a remote ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Jaguar CEO Lisa Conte presenting December 10 from 3:25pm - 3:35pm Eastern at the Emerging Growth Conference to provide updates on near-term catalysts; Click here to register Initial results of ongoing ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

You’ve heard of birds flying south to escape the winter, but do you know how chipmunks spend the colder months? Eastern chipmunks dig their burrows near decaying logs or stone piles, carving out a ...

Credit: Joedi Porto/Paulo Wilker/Antonio Humberto/State Secretariat for Animal Protection/Cover Images A jaguar rescued from the middle of the Rio Negro after being shot in the head in October has ...