From a hummingbird in flight to up-close encounters with parasites and their hosts, these images will spark the curiosity ...

As New York City celebrates the 400th anniversary of its founding, National Geographic looks back on more than a century of ...

Two brand‑new National Geographic atlases just dropped—one reimagines modern maps, the other dives deep into environmental ...

“ A Map to the Next World ,” is the title of a poem by Muscogee poet Joy Harjo. Nothing More of This Land is a new book from award-winning journalist Joseph Lee, about Indigenous identity and the ...

Because Pluto is so dim, you need a telescope to see it. “A backyard telescope could do it under the right conditions,” says ...

In the fascinating world of geography, borders between countries are not just lines on a map; they are symbols of history, ...

A team of paleontologists led by National Geographic Explorer Paul Sereno uncovered a trove of dinosaur fossils in the Sahara ...

Prepare to have your mind blown by the most jaw-dropping, bizarre, and out-of-this-world geography facts that will completely change the way you view our planet. From hidden continents to lakes that ...

This was the best place on Earth to see great white sharks—then they vanished A new study based on two decades of data shows what happens in an ocean ecosystem without great white sharks.

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

This southern Turkish seaside city has all the makings of a memorable break: an atmospheric old town, a Roman harbour full of ...

Africa’s Great Migration sees millions of wildebeest and zebra thunder across the sun-bleached savannah, drawn by instinct to cross crocodile-infested rivers where predators lie in wait. But beyond ...