A miniature dachshund survived in the wild for 529 days. Could your dog? Experts say it depends on these traits.

(Wong and coauthor Benoit Guénard are National Geographic Explorers ... whether invading kitchens or biting kids on the playground. Red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta, feed on a drop ...

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“Silence is noisy, so that was super spooky,” says Bertie Gregory, a National Geographic Explorer and host of Animals Up Close on Disney+. Gregory had traveled across the Drake Passage that ...

Newport says the idea of testing fish intelligence in the wild, where those animals naturally live, “is actually really quite new, and [the study authors] should be commended for doing that.” ...

Jill Tiefenthaler, chief executive officer for the National Geographic Society, concurs. “Hopefully the success of this project will inspire change throughout the country and the world.” ...

Covered in lush fur, the thickest in the animal kingdom, sea otters can live their entire lives in the ocean, feeding heavily upon seafloor animals such as shellfish and crustaceans. Eelgrass ...

But scientists are looking more closely at how kids’ diets influence their gut health—and how that might affect everything from mood to mental health to cognitive development. Just like an ...

During the turmoil and wars of the Renaissance, tarot’s earliest users found a similar solace. This story appeared in the September/October 2024 issue of National Geographic History magazine.

It is Mississippi. Editor's Note: Bijal P. Trivedi is a senior science editor at National Geographic and author of Breath from Salt: A Deadly Genetic Disease, a New Era in Science, and the ...

It means the drone’s lidar was used to both determine the geographic location and map the surrounding area. “Normally you’d first have to locate yourself and then do the mapping,” he says.

The next year, the Republic of China made the site a national museum. Northwest towerThe entire Forbidden City is surrounded by a wall more than 25 feet high. At each of the four corners stands an ...