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 ...

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

From giant stick bugs to rarely seen sea creatures, these animal videos fascinated us—and led to new scientific discoveries.

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

The celebrated author wrote a bestseller on birding. This is how she got started. Writer Amy Tan scours her yard in Sausalito, California for birds. Her recently published book, The Backyard Bird ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough choices for survival. Meerkats return to their burrow at South Africa’s ...

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.

With all the splashing, it was hard to tell what was happening under water. As the orcas surfaced to take a breath, dolphins were darting around their heads, but the water was so murky that the ...

A first-ever analysis of the whole Greenland shark genome gives researchers a couple of clues to their longevity. When this Greenland shark was born, Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa. The species is the ...

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 ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to their ancestral home. (And only one tried to escape.) Przewalski's horses once ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...