The oldest known grizzly mother in history, the 28-year-old bear was often photographed with her cubs in Grand Teton National Park before she was killed by a car in October.

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

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.

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 ...

"It was actually like something off of National Geographic," said Kellow ... where she said Harry had lived safely for years.

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 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 groundbreaking research project is finally building the tools to translate just how whales and other creatures communicate.

Photos from this obsession earned him recognition early on in his career, including been named a National Geographic Young Explorer and the Youth Outdoor Photographer of the Year. Bertie's goal is ...

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

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 ...

“The challenge was to get the camera-to-subject distance just right and light them well enough to have them pop off the colorful background,” he told National Geographic in an email. (See the ...