This story appears in the September 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the blue light of an early Arctic morning ... Is the measure of an animal’s wildness equal to the distance ...

But at National Geographic’s request ... A few hundred beavers won’t reengineer the Arctic. But the animals may be heading north in Canada and Siberia too, and they reproduce quickly.

This story appears in the May 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... There’s no place quite like it in the world.” Though Arctic animals have long flourished on Wrangel, people ...

Nevertheless, Emmanuel Gheerbrant, a researcher for the National Center for Scientific Research in France, speculates that Africa "must have been a laboratory for some very peculiar animals." ...

Once prevalent in every ocean except the Arctic and Antarctic, the leatherback population is rapidly declining in many parts of the world. While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells ...

This article is adapted from Joel Sartore’s new book, Vanishing, published by National Geographic Books. Joel Sartore has been photographing animals for his Photo Ark project for 13 years.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... scientists are taking extraordinary measures to save the animals they love. Playing the PartWhite-naped crane ...

The fossils of these remarkable animals come from the red rocks of Devon ... Found in the Canadian Arctic in 2004, Tiktaalik had a crocodile-like head and strong, bony fins that scientists ...

Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most ... s cairns at Port Refuge National Historic Site ...

Cary Wolinsky and Bob Caputo have a combined 64 years of experience photographing stories for National Geographic and other ... backyard—is patience. Wild animals are going to do what they ...

CETI hopes that if humans can understand what’s going on inside whales’ minds—and, eventually, the minds of other animals—it ... a marine biologist and National Geographic Explorer ...

Vasily Sarana, the 33-year-old chief of the Russian Geographic Society's Putorana ... We were 200 miles (322 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle in early September. Snow had fallen in the ...