I love vultures, and not just because they’re charismatic, intelligent, and physiologically incredible. No, I love vultures in a really sick way too. What they do when they feed on a carcass is ...

This story appears in the January 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. AT SUNSET THE WILDEBEEST SEEMS DOOMED: Sick or injured, it’s wandering miles from its herd on the Serengeti Plain of ...

When rangers patrolling the Ol Kinyei Conservancy in Kenya found a dead hyena and nearly a dozen vultures splayed out on the ground on November 13, they knew right away what happened—they’d ...

As National Geographic Explorer Darcy Ogada points out, "Vultures definitely have an image problem." But these unloved birds serve as "nature's cleaners, hoovering up rotting carcasses and ...

National Geographic Unveils Cover for Brand’s Annual ‘Pictures of the Year’ Retrospective Selected From More Than 2.1 Million Images Shot in the Field Over the Last Year.

The Dallas Zoo is not unique in these recent challenges. Earlier this week, vandals broke into Zoosiana, a zoo in Broussard, Louisiana, and stole 12 squirrel monkeys, which remain missing.An ...

YUYAN: My photograph is the cover of National Geographic's Pictures of the Year. But unfortunately, it's also the last issue of the magazine to ever be on newsstands.