Found off New Zealand, the species adds crucial knowledge about this little-known and odd-looking group of deep-sea fish ...

While on assignment in Romania, photographer Jasper Doest found himself uncomfortably close to a bear—leading to an image ...

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While poop is decidedly not on the menu for us humans, it’s a normal food for many animals. In one study ... red foxes in Scotland’s Cairngorms National Park frequently consume the feces ...

This story appears in the March 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... to a shooter with a high-powered rifle. After the animal is down, the two horns on its snout are hacked off in ...

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