Today marks 100 years since the birth of Louis Leakey, the patriarch of the first family of human fossils. NPR's Christopher Joyce reports for National Geographic Radio Expeditions.

For the first time, editors invite a reader to shoot the magazine's cover. — -- If it's always been your dream to see your photo featured on the cover of National Geographic, here's your ...

National Geographic described Leakey as a "swashbuckling, pugnacious real-life Indiana Jones" who "managed to cheat death many times — a childhood skull fracture, kidney and liver failures that ...

For only the second time in its 125-year history, National Geographic magazine is putting a big celebrity on the cover: Oscar-winning director James Cameron. “We’re not about celebrities, we ...