Nevertheless, Emmanuel Gheerbrant, a researcher for the National Center for Scientific Research in France, speculates that Africa "must have been a laboratory for some very peculiar animals." ...

They did it long before birds and bats. And it terms of size, they pushed the envelope as far as it could go for a flying animal." Like their cousins the dinosaurs, pterosaurs stand out as one of ...

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Tune in to Panda ... low in the grass to get a closer look at the animal lurching toward me. She’s about four months ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. On the edge of Mexico ... the remains of an animal—perhaps a dog or a wolf—were discovered.

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. A honeybee queen, when all is right in her world, should live for two to three years. But in the United States ...

He intended to put this in the animal's mouth, to measure the force ... An engraving of the scene created a national sensation in Great Britain. Bone hunters scrambled to find ever more ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. County fairs are a little like beauty pageants for animals. The way we selectively breed goats and sheep has shaped ...

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... 3,000-year-old Cuban crocodile skull—an animal no longer found in the Bahamas—from ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. For those who’ve long wondered if their cats regard them merely as kibble dispensers, a report in the journal ...