A 55-million-year-old fossil of a predator discovered in New Zealand is offering new insights into ancient marine ecosystems ...

Bald eagles roost in a tree against dark clouds in Alaska. Bald eagle roosts are crucial for survival, providing communal warmth, energy conservation, and protection from harsh we ...

A rare blue whale with albinism was spotted off the coast of Loreto, Mexico, in what is being heralded as "an unprecedented milestone for marine biology." According to a Friday, March 6 press release ...

A National Geographic explorer joins KhoiSan trackers to search for a mysterious elephant lineage.

'You could smell the elephants, but you don’t see them. They’re ghosts,' said the explorer.

National Geographic's Ghost Elephants is a feature documentary chronicling the search for Africa's most elusive elephant.

A few teeth, smaller than a grain of rice, are changing the map of your earliest primate relatives. They come from a creature called Purgatorius, a tiny tree-dwelling mammal that lived about 66 ...

On a hot February morning, Galápagos National Park rangers released 50 giant tortoises back to Floreana Island—marking the ...

The naked mole rat is finger size, nearly blind, and not particularly cute, even when judged on a rodents-only curve. It also could hold the secret to near immortality: The naked mole rat lives for ...

There’s good reason why Rwanda goes by the poetic nickname ‘The Land of a Thousand Hills’. This tropical country might be tiny — just a 10th of the size of the UK — but it’s blessed with a rampant ...

"The largest elephant ever. It doesn't matter if they are a dream or reality." National Geographic's latest documentary film, "Ghost Elephants," follows Nat Geo explorer Steve Boyes to locate the ...