For just one or two nights each spring, spotted salamanders emerge from underground and go in search of vernal mating pools.

"The largest elephant ever. It doesn't matter if they are a dream or reality." National Geographic's latest documentary film, "Ghost Elephants," follows Nat Geo explorer Steve Boyes to locate the ...

A team of National Geographic Explorers is studying how these bats developed their architectural expertise—while cataloguing the various styles of tents they make. Honduran white bats (Ectophylla Alba ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

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National Geographic joined an expedition to understand the mysterious creatures of the ice-locked southern continent. Waddling through the snows of a continent reserved for research, a gentoo penguin ...

New archaeological clues are shedding light on the fate of isolated Norse colonies in Greenland that disappeared during the Middle Ages. Ruins like these at Igaliku, once the religious heart of the ...