This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Nestled among white-sand beaches and brightly colored resorts, the mangrove swamps along Mexico’s Yucatán coast are a ...

On Tuesday, National Geographic announced the evolution of its digital footprint with several additions to its social media ...

Black holes are points in space that are so dense they create deep gravity sinks. Beyond a certain region, not even light can escape the powerful tug of a black hole's gravity. And anything that v ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Komodo dragon, the largest species of lizard now alive, can grow to 10 feet long and nearly 200 pounds.

In the summer of 1973 sunflowers appeared in my father's vegetable garden. They seemed to sprout overnight in a few rows he had lent that year to new neighbors from California. Only six years old ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine ... the wide-eyed animals shot to viral fame. The YouTube videos generated thousands of comments about the primate ...

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. On her first day in the sprawling South Sudanese settlement of Bidibidi in Uganda, home to almost 300,000 refugees ...

This story appears in the March 2020 issue of National Geographic magazine ... calculations and playing the piano in videos posted to YouTube. On a nine-day tour of sarumawashi culture, I saw ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter day in southern California, and busloads of tourists are pulling into an overlook above Beverly ...

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... rather than be carried off by a rodent cleanup crew. On YouTube there’s a wildly popular video that shows a ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s not easy to carry a basilica on your shoulders, but, despite the summer heat, these men aren’t breaking a sweat.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Some scientists contend that we’re heading toward what would be the sixth mass extinction in the history of life on ...