His hummingbird photographs were first published in the November 1960 issue of National Geographic. For a study of male Cuba’s bee hummingbirds’ mating displays, scientists captured the birds ...

For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic Society's collection in 1967. The elephant bird belongs to a ...

In the U.S., bird flu is spreading rapidly on poultry and dairy farms—and data censorship could pose risks to combating it, ...

This story appears in the September 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. As industrial-scale farms flourish in the European Union, its fields have grown quiet—robbed of the birds that ...

An aquatic adventure in the western Pacific island nation of Palau — home to over 300 islands — highlights the reward of protecting the planet’s marine ecosystems.

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With males reaching an impressive 26 pounds, the great Indian bustard was once a top contender for India's national bird, but it lost out to the Indian peafowl. (Why these orcas are wearing salmon ...

The fossilized 69-million-year-old skull of the oldest known modern bird has been ... radiation across the planet. Study lead author Dr. Christopher Torres, a National Science Foundation (NSF ...