Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...

When an early editor of National Geographic magazine wanted to include ... A picture is worth a thousand words and nature needs pictures more than ever. The fossil record shows that the extinction ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Making those photos felt epic because you know this animal is never going to come this way again.

Some transport water, oxygen, and carbon dioxide either into or out of the animal. Others fight bacteria or fungal infections. And at least one—in each species—is used for defense. To warn ...

Photos from this obsession earned him recognition early on in his career, including been named a National Geographic Young Explorer and the Youth Outdoor Photographer of the Year. Bertie's goal is ...

The oldest winged fossil dates back 330 million years ago, suggesting that insects were among the first animals to leave the oceans for land during the Devonian period some 400 million years ago.

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic ... thing to raise animals in captivity before adoring crowds and another to ensure a species’ survival in nature.