Can you say corporate synergy? Though it's called "Yellow Planet" -- a clear reference to BBC One's award-winning "Blue ...

Scientists are closer than ever to deciphering sperm whale communication. Their breakthroughs could open the door to expanded ...

Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding together in coalitions—meaning groups of two or more animals, but usually three to ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an ...

These birds have evolved to withstand the equatorial sun and shelter in volcanic rocks along a subtropical coastline. After ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you ...

As Bertie Gregory remembers it, the seeds of his passion might have been sown in the fields of English farmers, near his ...

Researchers have captured footage of these bears making a wide range of vocalizations during their most intimate moments—the ...

A one-foot-long baby squid was spotted swimming in the waters around the South Sandwich islands. The footage is unprecedented ...

A rancher took a backhoe to a critical nesting ground. His conviction, advocates say, “sets a crucial precedent for ...