Betty Webb was bored—“terribly bored,” as she later put it. It was the Blitz. Germany was dropping bombs on London, and she ...

These emperor penguin chicks showed extreme bravery in the new Secrets of the Penguins documentary through National ...

The National Geographic May 2025 programming includes Tucci in Italy, Genghis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols, and more.

Blake Lively lends her voice to 'Secrets of the Penguins,' a National Geographic series diving into penguin families and ...

A beluga whale is hard to mistake for a mermaid unless you're at sea for months, and it's the first thing you see. Here's how ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail—stretching from the Adirondacks to northern Maine—reveals fresh possibilities for an ancient route.

Vogue introduced its readers to a man “hotter than hot, narrower than narrow, more body-conscious than anybody could be.” ...

His interest formed at a young age. Born in Hawaii, Momoa spent much of his childhood in small-town Iowa, where he lived with his mother. But even landlocked, he was extremely invested in aquatic ...

This story is part of the National Geographic 33. Norton and Samson Parashina, president of the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust The group does plenty of the things you might expect from a ...