National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory explores the extraordinary lives of bees, among the planet's important animals, ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should change what we think about one of the world’s most important animals.

Scientists have found post-research homes for dogs, cats, rats, and many other kinds of animals, but adopting them out does ...

In the rugged terrain where Mexico and the United States meet, a border wall is just the latest obstacle fragmenting habitats and disrupting migration paths. Here’s how a cadre of conservationists is ...

A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing the various styles of tents they make. Honduran white bats (Ectophylla Alba ...

Known as the spotted salamander, these yellow polka-dotted amphibians can grow to the whopping length of nearly 10 inches long, though on average they are six to eight inches long. “When you see them ...

The new National Geographic series Pole to Pole ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose venom may yield new life-saving drugs. In episode 2 of Pole to Pole, Will Smith captures a ...

The return of the iconic predators to the Golden State has been a quiet success story—but this month, state officials announced that they euthanized part of a pack that relied on killing cattle for ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Climate change is speeding the spread of global pathogens. Can an early-warning system for animal viruses help stop pandemics before they start? During an expedition to the Southern Ocean, microbial ...