In December 2010, legendary South African explorer, Hendri Coetzee and his two friends, Chris Korbulic and Ben Stookesberry, ...

Misconceptions about these marine predators is putting shark populations—and the ocean ecosytem in general—at risk, say ...

Vampire bats in Peru sometimes prey on penguin chicks, but the adult penguins are ready to fight back—with a little help from dirt and even poop.

A woman was bitten by a coyote as she tried to pry her dog out of its mouth in Washington, wildlife officials said. She saw ...

About 35 leopards live in and around this park. That’s an average of less than two square miles of habitat apiece, for animals that can easily range ten miles in a day. These leopards also live ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Homing in on signals from a radio collar on the animal, Sikich leads the way along the famous slope.

A worker feeding primates at the Cincinnati Zoo on Friday landed in the hospital after a bonobo at the Jungle Trails enclosure bit off his thumb, according to reports.

The list of Indigenous American wild animals is long and includes some that are dangerous to human life, whether in attack or defense.

Let's put your animal knowledge to the test. Take our quiz and see if you can identify the scaly critters and furry mammals featured in our close-up photos. Skip to content ...

In 1933, two eye-witness claimed to have seen a prehistoric-like animal in the waters of a Scottish lake. In the following years, the truth would begin to unravel as more people claimed to spot this ...

High in Romania's Carpathian Mountains, advocates are pushing to protect one of Europe's last stretches of wilderness and banking on sustainable tourism to revive a struggling rural area.

His work has appeared in many national publications ... elusive creatures? Recent attacks on people off the Florida coast are a reminder of the animal's fierce nature. Yet scientists say the ...