The acclaimed zoologist, whose work with chimpanzees revolutionized the way scientists study and interact with animals, ...

recounts photo editor Kathy Moran. "After hours with the prairie dog, there was one usable shot," she says. By comparison, "Betsy was pretty easy." National Geographic's August 2009 cover.

was published on the cover of National Geographic. McCurry found her again in 2002. In 2014, she surfaced in Pakistan but went into hiding when authorities accused her of buying a fake Pakistani ...

The photo, showing her staring at the camera with piercing green eyes, became one of the most famous National Geographic covers of all time. The AP’s reporting only detailed a small number of ...

Check out the covers, below, and head to the National Geographic 33 site to learn more about the other honorees. Photos of Michelle Yeoh by Joyce Ng. Photos of Yara Shahidi by Micaiah Carter.

For only the second time in its 125-year history, National Geographic magazine is ... So it’s very rare for anyone famous to appear on the cover. Cameron is the only Hollywood figure to ever ...

Gulla gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry’s photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National Geographic ...

WASHINGTON — National Geographic ... the magazine’s first cover without a photograph or illustration since 1988 — and only the second since it began using cover photos regularly in 1959.