Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

By monitoring the movement, health, and environmental conditions of thousands of animals at once, Project ICARUS hopes to ...

Few figures in history have done more to change our understanding of the natural world. We celebrate Jane Goodall’s remarkable life with rare images from the National Geographic archives.

The heroes who saved the world's last tigers Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger population was under dire threat. In this beautifully photographed feature, National ...

These cats face a plethora of threats from shrinking habitat, diminishing prey, conflict with humans, poaching, and more. But a new report describes isolated success stories that show population ...

They say every generation thinks it's the end of the world. But the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander has been staring at oblivion since 1967 That’s the year the amphibian was listed under the ...

In her own research in Uganda, Reddy studied four adolescent male chimpanzees who adopted their younger siblings after their ...

The National Geographic Explorer dedicated her life not just to chimpanzees, but global conservation. Jane Goodall studied the chimpanzees of Gombe starting in 1960, making hers the longest field ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages. Found across every continent except ...

The world’s largest canine draws both reverence and ire. Here are some of the most common misunderstandings, according to scientists. A young male wolf nicknamed Gray Mane, walks ahead of its pack in ...

We were 800 feet up in the air, flying in a helicopter with an international team of scientists over the vast boreal forest encompassing Canada’s Wood Buffalo National Park, when one of them shouted ...