Many animals possess remarkable memory and intelligence for survival. Different species have evolved unique mental abilities ...

This safari incredible. You’ve seen lions, cheetahs, and other amazing wildlife. Your friends are going to love these photos.

Elephants are fascinating animals, and their trunks are even more impressive once you realize everything they can do. This long, flexible combination of nose and upper lip has over 40,000 muscles ...

The ancient Greeks started it, Disney immortalized it, and MythBusters even tested it with a contraption called the Dung of ...

Elephants investigate and revisit the remains of their dead for years — a biologist explains the real science behind this ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

Researchers found that the animals are capable of using their trunks to make a range of gestures that express their intentions and wants. By Veronique Greenwood If you give an elephant an apple, she’s ...

Elephants are known to be very intelligent creatures, powerful enough to perform tasks that are seemingly impossible for any other creature on the planet. Also, they have impressive memories. Yet a ...

In Hamza Loves Animals, Hamza Yassin meets lions, monkeys, elephants and more in Africa. Here's how you can use his ...