A new study sheds light on how these reptiles become “mummies” and paints a picture of what these ancient animals looked like. Paul Sereno and his colleagues spent years painstakingly preparing this ...

A wildlife photographer has discovered one of the oldest and largest collections of dinosaur footprints in an Italian ...

The new fossil was unearthed in a remote part of Argentinian Patagonia—and had teeth comparable to a T. rex, says National Geographic Explorer Diego Pol. The fossil skull of Kostensuchus atrox, a ...

Will Smith boasts new National Geographic docuseries is "unlike anything" he's ever done before, "Pole to Pole with Will Smith" premieres Jan. 13.

The remarkable skull will be on display from December 22 through December 28. After spending the next few years behind the ...

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 ...

Here’s how scientists are solving the “dinosaur death pose” mystery and others. This specimen of the bird-like dinosaur Archaeopteryx exhibits what paleontologists call the dinosaur death pose or the ...

We spot the first cliff early in the morning. The summer sun rises slowly, its deep indigo gradually fading into a soft peach. The world remains asleep, and we break the silence with heavy breathing ...

The largest museum of its kind in the Middle East opens today with an awe-inspiring dinosaur wing, a massive blue whale skeleton within arm's reach, and a stunning exploration of the region’s natural ...

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They enthralled sailors. They inspired Darwin. Then, by the mid 19th-century, the iconic Floreana tortoise was gone. Here’s how a group of persistent scientists unlocked the secrets to bringing them ...