The Lake Apopka Wildlife Drive offers an 11-mile journey through one of Florida’s most spectacular wetland restorations, where the admission price is free and the memories are priceless.

"We have found a habitable environment," said John Grotzinger, project scientist for the Curiosity mission. "The water that was here was so benign and supportive of life that if a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Coral bleaching isn’t just an ocean crisis. Here’s how the global event endangers food security, local jobs—and the land itself. Sea water divides the sunset and a ghost land of corals in New Ireland, ...

This region with one of the best known names on Earth is also one of the least understood. Could their ancestral way of life be the key to tranquility? For at least a thousand years, the Székelys, a ...

For centuries, humans have lived underground. Today, that ancient practice is under dire threat—even as cave life makes more sense than ever. Gabriele Gouellain waits in the kitchen of her ...

Dinosaur stories are often written for children, with a cast of neon cartoon characters or animatronic models. But for adults who never outgrew their fossil fascination, the Canadian province of ...

From Oct 11, visitors stepping into a hall at the Science Centre Singapore will be transported more than 400 million years ...