This story appears in the August 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine ... In the year 1551 a strange male animal was put on public display in Augsburg, Germany. He had humanlike fingers ...

This article is adapted from Joel Sartore’s new book, Vanishing, published by National Geographic Books. Joel Sartore has been photographing animals for his Photo Ark project for 13 years.

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... rackets that have made billions of dollars trafficking animals such as elephants and rhinos have added parrots ...

Someday these animals will be crucial to the survival of their species. But for now they’re doing what felines do best: taking a catnap. The National Geographic Photo Ark is a multiyear effort ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Like many animal species all over the world ... and children in collaboration with National Geographic, around the ambitious Photo Ark project, which was founded by photographer Joel Sartore ...