Evidence of one of the smallest - and perhaps unluckiest - early human relatives has been found in South Africa, according to ...

A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been seen by human eyes, revealing a vibrant, thriving ecosystem ...

Researchers who have studied genetic evidence of iguanas suggest the ancient reptiles traveled nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

A community conservation team saw not one but two baby Cao-vit gibbons, one of the world’s rarest apes, in the remote forests of northern Vietnam in 2024, the NGO Fauna & Flora announced this month.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) recently announced that it plans to continue listing grizzly bears as an ...

In 25 years of wildlife storytelling, National Geographic Explorer Sandesh Kadur has seen and documented more rare wildlife than most people experience in a lifetime.

Rare evidence about the lives of an ancient group of arthropods has been uncovered in the U.S. The findings of the study are ...

M from the Bezos Earth Fund to help save 25 frog species through conservation, rewilding, and disease prevention efforts ...

Fiji’s iguanas embarked on one of the most astonishing ocean journeys in history, rafting nearly 5,000 miles from North ...

Footage of four, rarely-seen snow leopards clambering up snowy cliffs in northern Pakistan has created a frenzy of excitement ...

Ancient DNA shows an endangered dove species endemic to Cuba is more genetically distinct than the dodo was before it died out.

The only iguanas outside the Americas, Fiji iguanas are an enigma. A new genetic analysis shows that they are most closely related to the North American desert iguana, having separated about 34 ...