The historian Procopius described how a creature called Porphyrios terrified sixth-century sailors for 50 years. But what was ...

Travelers can explore Beijing's ancient past by visiting the Beijing Central Axis – a newly designated UNESCO World Heritage ...

From the 25 'Best of the World 2026' destinations by National Geographic, six of them are in Asia. Here are the countries.

It was a very early morning in August when an entire mountainside in Alaska’s Tracy Arm fjord detached and slid into the deep ocean water beneath it.

National Geographic's top destinations list is back for "Best of the World 2026." Find out which 25 locations, from all ...

From the waters of an Arctic archipelago all the way to the Southern Ocean and marine waters in between, these photos show ...

Photographer Michael Nichols captured Jane Goodall as she studied chimpanzee behavior in the wild in 1990. “We should be kind to animals because it makes better humans of us all,” Goodall once told ...

National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for wildlife in a career that forever changed how we understand animal behavior.

Among the most popular books of the time, bestiaries were filled with real and mythical animals and their lore, the ...

What starts as a calm day on the water becomes pure chaos when a giant fish hooks up and won’t let go. The fight is unreal.

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...