This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic ... of hundreds of plants disappearing as invasive flora crowd out Hawaii’s native species and introduced animals (such ...

This story appears in the August 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tropical plants aren’t abundant ... Nor are the planet’s most diverse animals, insects. Even so, Montreal-based ...

The Paleozoic era's Silurian period saw animals and plants finally emerge on land ... Huge reef systems flourished in the clear, tropical seas—evident today in the many limestone rock formations ...

Far from being barren wastelands, deserts are biologically rich habitats with a vast array of animals and plants that have adapted to the harsh conditions there. Some deserts are among the planet ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When you conjure up “extinction” in your mind’s eye, you probably see an animal—a dodo, perhaps, or a ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine ... suffered the ultimate indignity for an animal: It has been killed by a plant. The swampy pine savanna within a ...

But even small changes in temperature or precipitation could drastically impact plants and animals living in the desert. In some cases global warming is predicted to increase the area of deserts ...

It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto land to sunbathe. It is named not for the color of its shell, which is normally brown or ...

Staghorn corals occur in shallow tropical reefs, slopes ... such as Vanuatu and Kiribati. The animals prefer water depths between 15 and 100 feet. Like other corals in the Acropora genus, staghorn ...