T hese are the animals that have shattered our sense of what non-human intelligence can be—and how far it can go. There are ...

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This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

Explore National Geographic’s 2026 Best of the World list—26 destinations from the Dolomites to Dominica redefining travel ...

From the waters of an Arctic archipelago all the way to the Southern Ocean and marine waters in between, these photos show ...

Dan Buettner's iconic National Geographic cover story transformed our idea of what makes for a long, healthy life. It's now published online for the first time. OKINAWA, JAPANSquatting effortlessly on ...

What cutting-edge technology has revealed in the 800-year-old search for the Mongol ruler's lost tomb. The "Yuan Emperor Album" includes a portrait of Genghis Khan, an iconic figure in Mongolian ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer ...

With so many coral reefs bleaching and pangolins being poached, it may seem tone-deaf to call for the conservation of species that are too small to see with the naked eye. But that’s exactly what the ...

Approximately 500 National Guard soldiers from Texas and Illinois have been deployed in the Chicago area and mobilized to protect federal agents and facilities amid a legal battle over their ...

Members of the Texas National Guard have begun arriving at a U.S. Army Reserve facility in Chicago's far southwestern suburbs, where they're expected to participate in training before they are sent on ...