Animals were every bit as heroic as the first human astronauts By Jeffrey Kluger Animals have long been the science community’s shock troops—the first to hit the beaches when a new frontier of ...

Or might extinctions, perhaps mass extinctions, be in the offing? Animal magnetism One of the first concrete signs that animals can tap into the magnetic field was observed, as in many a great ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Like other wolves, these animals were hunted and persecuted on a massive scale in the 19th and early 20th century. By the 1960s, only a small population remained in southwestern Louisiana and ...

Narrator: Cows produce the majority of the world's milk. But beyond cows, there are animals from all around the world that contribute to the production of milk based on environmental differences.

What they ate: Some ate plants, while others ate animals, including other dinosaurs. How big they were: The smallest dinosaurs were the same size as hummingbirds at only 2 inches (5 centimeters ...

The ability to communicate effectively with other individuals plays a critical role in the lives of all animals. Whether we are examining how moths attract a mate, ground squirrels convey ...