From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

He photographed the darkly colored, paperclip-size tadpoles in Cedar Lake, part of Canada’s Vancouver Island. “The challenge was to get the camera-to-subject distance just right and light them well ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem.

From sharks to bats to lions, these researchers are showing their local communities the importance of these often misunderstood species to their ecosytems. Lemon sharks (pictured in the Bahamas) are ...

Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the animal kingdom's most curious youngsters. Sumatran tigersPanthera tigris ...

They fly like no other creature on Earth, survive for decades, and rarely get cancers. Learning their secrets could lead to new advances for human use. How do bats fly? Scientists at Brown University ...

The 5-foot great white was filmed off the coast of California covered in a strange, milky substance that could be uterine fluid. Is this first-ever recorded sighting of a newborn great white shark? A ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). When Edward Ndiritu joined Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, central Kenya, as a rhino monitor in 1996, poaching had already reduced the ...

Dim the lights, put on some slow jams... get up in the tree? National Geographic's Crittercam technology just revealed a mating ritual never before seen in any bear species. An Andean bear named Ruru ...