Animal Pictures and Facts Learn all you wanted to know about animals with pictures, videos, facts, news, and more. Composite photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's collection in 1967. The elephant bird belongs to a ...

National Geographic was founded in 1888 by a group of visionaries who embodied an era of exploration, discovery, invention, and change. With offices around the world and headquarters in Washington ...

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

Here are some Ontario geographic facts that will have you checking a map in disbelief. With an area of 1.076 million square kilometres, Ontario is larger than every European country besides Russia.

Garland, who is also a National Geographic Explorer, has listened to hundreds of hours of whale songs for hundreds of hours and use short pauses and characteristic sequences to identify the indivi ...

What’s more, the behavior appeared in a totally new area—Minoh Quasi-National Park near Osaka ... t be absolutely certain it’s the same animal. “It’s difficult to recognize, but when ...

This creates wetlands known as “beaver ponds,” which the animals use as sources of food ... The largest beaver dam on record is in Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada, stretching the length ...

As far back as Ancient Rome, people have stuffed parts of animals such as wombs and ... To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries ...

“It’s not a one-off.” While most animals can detect the scents from urine, evolution has caused dolphins to lose their sense of smell, so they rely on taste instead. (This is the role ...

Smithsonian/Roshan Patel For conservation scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, helping animals “swipe right” on the best mate is all in a day’s ...

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 ...