National Geographic helped the famous conservationist get her start—and followed her chimpanzee research and advocacy for ...

A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like ...

Highlighting the best wildlife photography across land and sea, see some of the winning photos from this year's Wildlife ...

When George Shiras published his wildlife photographs in National Geographic it transformed the medium with his novel use of ...

Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and ...

By far the largest ever found of its kind, the spiny fossil predator "would have made enough scampi to feed an army," one ...

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was certainly a rarity among conservationists: She was a household name. For more than six decades, she was the ...

While sharks have been found with albinism and xanthism, this pale-eyed, gold-skinned shark is the first nurse shark documented with both traits, according to the new paper. Experts who spoke with ...

When Dwayne LaGrou asked Weird Animal Question of the Week what animals have the largest eyes for their body size, we were ...

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

How do we talk to our kids about scary, sometimes fatal wildlife encounters? From the 2016 incident of a young boy falling into a gorilla enclosure at the Cinncinnati Zoo to the death of a ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages. Found across every continent except ...