The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ...

Analysis of woolly rhinoceros DNA recovered from the permafrost-preserved wolf further hints that the Ice Age beasts went ...

Mongolia’s Bogd Khan Uul was originally protected by an ally of Genghis Khan and is home to Bronze Age petroglyphs, ...

That ethos continued in 1993, when Damon and Deanne Howes headed into the wilds of south-western Tasmania (Issue 36, Oct–Dec ...

Brian Skerry captured a Great White shark in the Gulf of Maine from just four feet away, earning a spot in National Geographic’s favorite photos of the year. Trump directive spurs fears of McCarthyism ...

From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world. While monitoring the burrow of a rare giant armadillo in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, ...

Discover how recent studies reveal that Saudi Arabia's arid deserts were once lush landscapes filled with rivers and lakes.

Around 18,000 years ago, ice age people in what is now Ukraine likely weathered the extremely harsh climate by building parts of their shelters out of mammoth bones, a new study finds. The mammoth ...

Learn about the largest National Forests in the U.S., including the Tongass National Forest in Alaska and the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in the lower 48 states. Know about their size, location, ...

Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Hundreds of cats, from purebreds to rescues, competed for glory at the world's largest cat show in Cleveland, Ohio. A cat owner from Mithra Cattery gives her Persian cat a massage after a long day at ...

It's time to transport ourselves to the most remote corners of the world, where humans are not common visitors. Thanks to ...