“It’s going to be a very iconic specimen,” adds paleontologist Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. The story of the Dueling ...

For those interested in viticulture, Baxter’s Vineyards and Winery – Illinois’ oldest winery – offers tastings of locally produced wines. Their specialty fruit wines, particularly those made from ...

Sartore is a National Geographic Explorer, wildlife photographer, and conservationist. In 2006, Sartore founded the Photo Ark project to show the world the beauty of biodiversity and inspire ...

To honor Koko's memory, National Geographic is republishing "Conversations With a Gorilla," our October 1978 cover story written by Francine Patterson, the psychologist who taught Koko how to sign.

Pat Riddell, editor of National Geographic Traveller (UK), said: “Our competition goes from strength to strength, with this year’s easily one of the strongest yet. World-class photography ...

National Geographic photographer Brian Skerry has been diving in the Gulf of Maine for more than 40 years. After learning these waters were a harbinger of climate change, he set out to document ...

“You’ve got to think big.” (see a video on APR by the National Geographic Society.) In the 19 years since, the group has raised $160 million in private donations, much of it from high-tech ...

“We want this paper to encourage more research on these totally different species of monkeys in Asia,” says Andie Ang, a National Geographic explorer and research scientist at the Wildlife ...

“We don't know how long they live or how fast they grow in the wild,” says Tierney Thys, a marine biologist with the California Academy of Sciences and a National Geographic Explorer.

But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and protecting the wonder of our world, funded Explorer Aaron Micallef's work.

He is now the co-chair of the panel behind the National Academies report and a distinguished professor emeritus of international health at Emory University in Atlanta. “The philosophy of science ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.