In the deep seas found at the Earth’s poles, explorers are still finding elusive and mysterious sea creatures. On an ...

Stacks of past issues of National Geographic magazines against a white background. In Conkin’s novel Community Board, the lead character retreats from an imploded marriage to her parents' empty ...

Greeks don’t hike. You’ll hear this everywhere you go in Greece — usually from the locals themselves. They can’t see the point, apparently; uses up too much beach time. If that’s the ...

Published in the May 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries only).

They supposedly lurk in remote lakes, hide in dense forests, and roam snowy mountains. Yet despite being refuted by science, cryptids—fantastical beasts that probably don’t exist—have awed ...

For the past 20 years writing for National Geographic, I’ve identified and studied the world’s longest-lived areas, which I call blue zones. These places—Okinawa, Japan; Sardinia ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...

Photograph by James Smith, National Geographic for Disney+ The expedition team celebrate Greenland guide Adam Kjeldsen's 40th birthday after a day of trekking across the Renland Ice Cap.

Evidence suggests the tools were used by the human relative Paranthropus, which scientists previously believed relied only on its teeth and jaws to eat. Scientists have unearthed more than 300 ...

Photograph by RONAN DONOVAN A version of this story appears in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Based in New York City, Kholood Eid photographed biologists and activists across ...

They have since been taken by the conservation nonprofit The National Trust, and 49 of them— one for each foot the tree stood before it was felled— will be given to community spaces around the ...