When hundreds of eerily perfect circles were discovered on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, theories abounded about what ...

In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.

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The 48,000-square-kilometer (18,500-square-mile) marine sanctuary covers two of ... areas of the Pacific Ocean. Image courtesy of Manu San Félix/National Geographic Pristine Seas.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... whether we’re dooming these animals. But after months of reporting on sea turtles in several countries, I ...

The US just recorded the first death from severe bird flu. Experts say it's not too early, or unreasonable, to prepare for the worst.

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4:21 Beneath the waves, the ocean is a world of sound. Marine animals like whales use sound to travel, communicate, and find food underwater. But since humans have introduced machinery ...

Interestingly, while ultrablack is considered rare in nature, it seems to have evolved several times in groups of animals that are ... a similar feature in deep sea fish, such as the viperfish ...

Footage captured in May 2022 shows an aerial view of killer whales hunting and killing great white sharks at Mossel Bay, ...

Even so, little more than 25 percent of the ocean ... National Geographic Explorer, Ved Chirayath, to turn his use of technology designed for the enormity of space to the unexplored seas that ...