From historic Everest summits to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research, National Geographic magazine and its famed covers have ...

In the backcountry around Belfast and the Causeway Coast, Northern Irish producers are bringing new life to old farms and ...

Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. Documenting the aftermath requires a new approach as well. In a conventional photograph of ...

A journey across Sicily reveals the essence of an island shaped by outsiders, where successive waves of immigration over the ...

This story originally published in the September 1999 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. In the medical room far behind the chutes, cowboys were ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

New findings increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road network by more than 60,000 miles ...

Dan Buettner's iconic National Geographic cover story transformed our idea of what makes for a long, healthy life. It's now published online for the first time. OKINAWA, JAPANSquatting effortlessly on ...

Revealing the weird and wonderful world that lies just below your feet. From some angles, the wings of the butterfly dragonfly look golden or translucent. To reveal the full spectrum of colors, Takuya ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his discovery of a nearly complete Australopithecus boisei skull (now Paranthropus ...

Days after Hull was named one of the world's best places to visit in 2026 by National Geographic, the city is laying claim to having the most whimsical address – Second Star on the Right and Straight ...

These over-50 champs—and a growing body of research—show what we gain by staying active later in life. Nora Langdon, 82, started powerlifting in her 60s and quickly got hooked. Over the past two ...