For nearly 30 million years, a 2,000-pound beast known as the entelodont ruled a sweeping empire from Mongolia to what is now ...

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On Earth, size is a feature that never fails to captivate the human imagination. Whether it’s the towering presence of elephants or the massive enormity of blue whales, large animals capture our ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Birds have fascinated humans for centuries, with their ability to take to the skies effortlessly. But when it comes to sheer ...

Feb. 4, 2025 — This week, the world's governments are meeting in Geneva for the 78th meeting of the Standing Committee of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of ...

Work at the National Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Center in northern Colorado is helping save one of the most endangered ...

is considered very important when reconstructing past ecosystems because it provides important information about which animals were eaten by which," the museum said in a press release. Paleontologist ...

Jan. 13, 2025 — Researchers have witnessed behavior in the wild which could reveal critical clues about how the endangered whale shark ... Sharks and Rays Benefit from Global Warming, but Not ...

February 2, 2025 • Humans actually have vestigial muscles that activate when listening closely to something, even though people lost the ability to really move their ears about 25 million years ago.

There are a number of animal models that are used to study the structural and functional deficits ... Despite the lack of BAC data in human beings this measure is often used to compare exposure levels ...

Travel back through time to meet the world’s most enormous animals, brace yourself for the final fantastic adventure in a ...