The famed escapologist had a reputation for death-defying stunts. But his rise to fame and sudden death both came with some ...

Secluded from the rest of Guatemala on the country's east coast, the port town of Livingston has a Caribbean-like culture ...

A hidden ecosystem of giant sea spiders, octopuses, and other stunning sea creatures shows how life can flourish even when sealed off from the surface by a thick layer of ice.

Earth’s frozen places — ice sheets, glaciers and permafrost — are melting: a clear sign of climate change and a planet ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic ... one out to sea. “If you miss an island, good luck with that. If there’s no reef, you cannot complete your life cycle ...

Other Permian detectives suspect the killer oozed up from the sea. For years scientists have known that the deep ocean lacked oxygen in the late Permian. But most life is concentrated in shallow ...

Blake Lively narrates the new Secrets of the Penguins trailer from National Geographic, which demonstrates the tuxedoed birds ...

Apalachicola National Forest, Florida’s largest national forest, encompasses 630,000 acres of pine flatwoods, cypress swamps, ...

Found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, but also as far north as Nova Scotia, Kemp’s ridleys are among the smallest sea turtles, reaching only about 2 feet in shell length and weighing up to 100 ...

Researchers were in a remote region of the Bellingshausen Sea on a different expedition when the iceberg calved, giving them a chance to change course and explore a region never before accessible to ...