How a molar, jawbone, and pinkie are rewriting human history
Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...
Some of humanity’s greatest evolutionary mysteries are finally being solved—one bone at a time
Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering ...
These are the best cruises for exploring ancient civilizations
Tracing temple-studded coastlines and rivers that gave birth to epoch-shaping civilizations, these sailings reveal how the ...
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Tchim-tchim! There’s More Than Wine to Toast in Portugal’s Douro Valley
National Geographic Expeditions offers several Douro Valley tours, including an 11-day cruise along the Douro River. Sign up to receive the latest news and offers from National Geographic ...
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Peter Frost
In 2001 and 2002, he led National Geographic Society-sponsored expeditions into the remote region of Vilcabamba, finding and exploring the previously unknown Inca and pre-Inca site of ...
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Q&A with Expert Will Steger
This former Explorer-in-Residence for National Geographic is a pioneer in his field, with a series of firsts in polar exploration to his credit. You’ve spent so much of your life in the northern ...
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How Today’s Toys May Be Harming Your Daughter
Photograph by Dan Forbes This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... includes lessons about gender. American society has made significant strides towards ...
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What made this ancient society sacrifice its own children?
This story appears in the February 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... National University of Trujillo prepare to clean and catalog skulls from the mass burial at Huanchaquito.
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Allen Glazner
His current work includes studies on the origin of granite, research about the influence of bedrock geology on plant distribution and a National Geographic Society-supported project on the ...
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Horses Make Facial Expressions Just Like Humans
This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... EquiFACS (Equine Facial Action Coding System) to catalog the eye, lip, nostril, and chin movements they’d ...
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Louise Leakey
National Geographic Explorer at Large Louise Leakey directs expeditions at the Koobi Fora Research Project in northern Kenya’s Turkana Basin. A third-generation paleoanthropologist, Louise ...
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Ricky Qi
His documentary Under One Roof, chronicling the Mosuo people – China’s last matriarchal society – led to his recognition as a National Geographic Explorer. More recently, Ricky retraced the ...