Elephant caregivers play an important role in their society by comforting and teaching babies when mom is occupied.

Find your inner National Geographic Explorer in these photos. Lucia Sicos Mamani, a Quechua alpaquera (alpaca-herder, hand-spinner and traditional weaver) hand spinning wool at the top of the ...

They also can remain submerged for over 20 minutes. PHOTOGRAPH BY Paul Nicklen, National Geographic Image Collection By mid-December, as the Antarctic summer approaches, the chicks have started to ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

New research reveals that memories of fatty and sugary foods are encoded in the hippocampus, helping explain why some cravings feel impossible to resist. Cravings may feel impulsive, but new resea ...

Nearly two weeks after a tragic incident at the Konni Elephant Camp, where a four-year-old boy lost his life when a concrete pole collapsed on him, four Beat Forest officials who had been ...

This story appears in the June 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the English ship Hopewell anchored off the coast of what is now North Carolina, Governor John White watched with ...

Photograph by National Archives (208-N-4223) At the age of 19, Mary Zerbel had been the youngest woman flying instructor in the United States. When she returned from England, she delivered dicey ...

ABC “This Week”: National security adviser Mike Waltz … Diane Swonk … Ashish Jha. Panel: Donna Brazile, Reince Priebus, Marianna Sotomayor and Jonathan Martin. CBS “Face the Nation ...

This film by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle skirts gimmicks to examine a creator’s drive to build a humanoid device powered by artificial intelligence. By Alissa Wilkinson Vince Vaughn plays a ...