For decades, Himalayan brown bears have killed livestock and destroyed homes in this rural village. Residents are learning new ways to coexist with their fearsome, but critically endangered neighbors.

Summer is the best time for wildlife-watching in Europe and spotting animals such as bears, wolves and lynx, is made possible thanks to knowledgable guides and various animal reintroduction schemes.

Maybe, with a little luck, he would make another discovery that would change the map of human evolution. A version of this story appears in the February 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine.

Cravings may feel impulsive, but new research suggests they’re often rooted in memory. Scientists have found that the brain encodes high-calorie foods in a way that can quietly influence what we ...

Scientists just confirmed a 30-foot void first detected inside the monument years ago. Here’s the technology that helped scientists find it—and what it may have been used for.

After hiding in the shadows, a long-lost frog is giving conservationists a glimmer of hope in Ecuador. Back in 2022, biologist Juan Sánchez-Nivicela and his team navigated through dense ...

TheStausee-Tafeltourtrail is part of the larger eco-friendly Saar-Hunsrück Steig, a long-distance hiking trail that spans roughly 250 miles in the western part of Germany.

The love songs of these Panamanian frogs is a dinner bell for fringe-lipped bats. But how do they learn which frogs and toads are safe to eat and which are poisonous?

National Geographic stories take you on a journey that’s always enlightening, often surprising, and unfailingly fascinating. This month—the year in pictures ...

This makes a lot of sense. You see, an MFT camera has a 2x crop factor; add that to a 2,000mm+ spotting scope and you’re working with focal lengths so big, they even put the Nikon P1100 to shame. As ...