Despite its reputation, science isn't immune from making mistakes or chasing sensationalism, but one hoax in particular was ...

Tourists swim in a cenote, or flooded cave, outside Playa del Carmen, Mexico. The Yucatan Peninsula is dotted with thousands of these interconnected limestone caves, which are fed by a ...

Throughout our history, the magazine’s storytelling has relied on photographers—and on artists such as Fernando Gomez Baptista.

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Scientists have discovered evidence of stone megastructures on the Karst Plateau on the border of Slovenia and Italy that were most likely built before the Late Bronze Age. These enormous structures ...

Some sixty years after her grandmother discovered “Nutcracker Man,” Louise Leakey unearths his long-lost hand—reviving a ...

An archaeologist is piecing together what the V-shaped stone structures—some stretching 500 feet long—were used for.

In a remote mine in Canada, a chance strike from an excavator revealed something few paleontologists ever get to see: a ...

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults ...

What do the Chrysler Building (New York), Palais de Chaillot (Paris), and Christ the Redeemer Statue (Rio de Janeiro) have in common? As bold icons of art deco, they illustrate the far-flung influence ...

It’s dangerous. It’s toxic. And it may provide hope for millions in agony. Pain management is among the most commonly reportedly reasons for medical cannabis use, but side effects have stymied many ...

We know next to nothing about 99.999 percent of the seafloor. How one researcher plans to democratize deep-sea exploration. Katy Croff Bell, who has been an ocean researcher for 25 years, is working ...