The barrier islands off the coast of Georgia are littered with millions of oysters left behind by Indigenous peoples. New ...

The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...

The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient ... feet long, though the M. hoffmannii is believed to be able to reach 50 feet in length. “We find them from time to time, but to find one ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has traveled many miles across land on foot since 2013, when he began his long ...

And much of that desert land is wild and wonderfully remote, accessible only via foot or primitive roads ... Approximately ...

Long thought extinct, sebecid fossils found in the Dominican Republic are rewriting what we know about ancient predators in ...

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to ...

Pockets of water exist that are so salty they behave more like dense syrup than seawater. These deep, hidden lakes are called ...

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent ...

was once hunted and eaten for ancient funeral rites, researchers say. Getty Images/iStockphoto On the northern peninsula of Morocco, just across the sea from Spain, one of the world’s heaviest ...

A long time ago, strange predators roamed the Caribbean — not just birds and snakes, but land-dwelling crocodiles that ...

The great bustard, now an endangered species, was once hunted and eaten for ancient funeral rites, researchers say. Getty Images/iStockphoto On the northern peninsula of Morocco, just across the sea ...