By the time he turned seven, there was only one continent our son hadn’t yet been to, and we were determined to remedy that.

The birds are breeding earlier, and more of their chicks are surviving. But researchers fear this success may not last ...

Three Adelie penguins approached a resting Emperor penguin on an icy Antarctic shoreline. Filmed on January 28, the moment shows the smaller birds quickly sprinting away once the larger penguin stood ...

Objectively speaking, the 2025-26 Pittsburgh Penguins appear to be a really good hockey team. By every major piece of data that exists to evaluate hockey teams, the Penguins rate extremely well across ...

Three Adelie penguins sprinted away after challenging an Emperor penguin who was just trying to have a sleep in the sun. The trio tested their courage to provoke the Emperor on January 28, 2026 on an ...

An Adelie penguin photographed by Prof Bethan Davies. Adelie penguins are highly dependent on sea ice coverage and a healthy population of krill, both of which are placed at risk by the climate crisis ...

Could Spinosaurus swim? A new fossil with a scimitar-like head crest provides new evidence on the unsettled question. Unearthed in a rare Saharan fossil site in Niger, Spinosaurus mirabilis had a ...

As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today. The ruins of the ...

Surrounded by green hills and rugged coastlines home to albatrosses, penguins and seals, the South Island’s second-largest city is also one of New Zealand’s most distinctive. Roughly 225 miles south ...

There’s good reason why Rwanda goes by the poetic nickname ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’. This tropical country might be tiny — just a 10th of the size of the UK — but it’s blessed with a rampant ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...