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This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are talking about Avery Jackson, a nine-year-old girl from Kansas City who is the first transgender ...

In a moss-draped rain forest in British Columbia, towering red cedars live a thousand years, and black bears are born with ...

This story appears in the July 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the digital age ... images out of our publications—but first an admission about a time when we didn’t.

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. This is where the ... Controversy dogged the discovery at first. Some scientists attacked the little rock as a one ...

This story originally published in the June 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the fall of ... bigger than President Barack Obama’s first one. People lie to cover up bad behavior ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable ... and political aspects of gender. But first, we define our terms. This glossary was ...

This story appears in the February 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. In 1418 the town ... myth of the Italian Renaissance. When the first histories were written, the losers came off ...