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In human terms, it doesn’t take long for the little ones to grow and fledge – around two weeks in most cases. We watched from ...

Amazon Prime Day 2025 has thousands of deals, including popular toys for kids of all ages. We combed through the offerings and narrowed down the 47 best toy deals you can shop now from Lego, ...

It’s important to tackle the topic in an age-appropriate way, experts say—and to make sure children understand how the legacy of slavery informs life today.

In 2022, National Geographic Society with the support of Rolex, launched the Perpetual Planet Amazon Expedition, a one-of-a-kind science and storytelling exploration of the world’s most vital ...

Meroë Marston Morse joined Polaroid just weeks after graduating from Smith College—and quickly rose to become one of the iconic company's most visionary leaders. She's seen here in a test ...

Not all volcanoes are related to subduction, however. Another way volcanoes can form is what’s known as hotspot volcanism. In this situation, a zone of magmatic activity—or a hotspot—in the ...

A version of this story appears in the June 2025 issue of National Geographic magazine. Based in Woodbridge, England, Tristan McConnell reported from Morocco for this story.

Jajpur: A court in Jajpur district on Thursday sentenced a 37-year-old Kashmiri man to five years of rigorous imprisonment for anti-national activities and fraud, two years after his arrest.

Floods aren't just sudden—they're getting stronger, faster, and more deadly. Here's the science behind floods and how climate change is exacerbating this natural phenomenon.

In 2017 the government closed its largest gold-mining area, on the Djado Plateau to the north—ostensibly because of terrorist activity, though more likely because of foreign miners coming in ...

Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds of their young in the largest mass child sacrifice events known in world history. Now archaeologists are trying to ...