Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

Female praying mantises are notorious for eating their mates during or after sex. Now, scientists have discovered a dwarf ...

National Geographic Explorer Ronan Donovan, a wildlife biologist turned conservation photographer, will be coming to the ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

Spiritual guides explain why ladybugs are seen as symbols of luck, protection and love — and what repeated sightings could ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

As a corner of Africa heats up, new research shows how the future of the species rests with powerful matriarchs making tough ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

Invertebrates dominate the animal kingdom, making up 97 percent of all creatures. These animals, lacking a backbone, display ...

The invasion of the spotted lantern fly across the eastern United States has sparked a new type of aggressive ...

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to ...

Videos of friendly, gentle foxes approaching humans, seemingly wanting to play, are going viral on TikTok. But just because a species is sociable doesn't necessarily make it domesticated. An urban red ...