Stunning discoveries and fresh breakthroughs in DNA analysis are changing our understanding of our own evolution and offering a new picture of the "other humans" that our ancestors met across Europe ...

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... While the rest of their team was a few miles away, working fossil quarries discovered in previous years, Sampson ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

This story appears in the May 2018 issue of National ... led by National Geographic Emerging Explorer and biologist Ryan Carney. The plumage on its wings is based on actual fossil feathers ...

Fossil fuel plants are retiring faster than ... on renewable projects where a state’s electricity rates exceed the national average by more than, say, 30 percent. That is another measure that ...