Baby orangutans stay with their mothers for about eight years. For a mother and daughter pair at Utah’s Hogle Zoo, they came together out of necessity.

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Young elephants have a lot to learn—what to eat, what to avoid, how to behave around others. When they grow up around their mother and aunts, their development into well-behaved adults may seem ...

Sartore will come to Sarasota this month to show some of his images and share stories of his work in a Ringling College Town ...

Seaweed bathing in Ireland, a trek through Africa’s first designated wilderness quiet park—we asked National Geographic staff and contributors for their favorite places to escape the stress and noise ...

Person in critical condition after being shot in incident involving Border Patrol in Arizona Carney rolls his eyes at US Treasury secretary, says he told Trump he meant what he said at Davos Silver ...

“In my opinion, invisibility is no longer a science fiction concept.” A B-2 stealth bomber takes off from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to using anti-reflective paint to ...

Earth is covered with technofossils, or man-made materials, that will last for centuries and maybe even longer. Technofossils, anything that is man-made, including new materials, will persist in the ...

From Yosemite’s Badger Pass to little-known slopes in Washington State and Ohio, three parks offer a rare chance to ski inside some of the country’s most protected landscapes. A backcountry skier ...

Scientists are still untangling why the nutrient gap persists—and what it reveals about how women’s health is studied and treated. A woman lounges on a chair in the sun. Vitamin D is a crucial ...

While excavating clay cylinders in Syria, archaeologists discovered a rare find: an early writing system. The script has given scholars the new challenge of reinvestigating the timeline of alphabetic ...