“It’s the unknown,” says Erich Hoyt, author of Creatures of the Deep: In Search of the Sea’s Monsters and the World ... the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in Hawaii.

Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea wasn’t nearly as picturesque ... But it might be something different.” The nonprofit National Geographic Society, committed to illuminating and ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found ...

Video game tourism is on the rise as the games’ immersive and interactive worlds spark wanderlust in their biggest fans. 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 ...

The continent’s coastal ice is crumbling as the sea and air around it warm. This photo originally published in “The Larsen C Ice Shelf Collapse Is Just the Beginning—Antarctica Is Melting.” ...

A version of this story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Although freshwater environments, from creeks to rivers, brim with more than 10,000 species of fish ...

See the full list of the 2025 Peabody Awards winners in advance of the June 1 ceremony, which will be hosted by comedian Roy ...

“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.

From King Tut’s tomb to the Dead Sea Scrolls, there’s seemingly nothing archaeologists can’t unearth. So why haven’t they found Atlantis yet? It’s a question regularly fielded by real ...

“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 ...

Afterward, he traveled to the Patanangala beach inside Yala National Park, where some 60 visitors were washed away. The beach was one of the worst hit areas of the 500-square-mile (1,300-square ...