“The challenge was to get the camera-to-subject distance just right and light them well enough to have them pop off the colorful background,” he told National Geographic in an email. (See the ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

Examples of souvenir photos are displayed here on a poster board ... This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I’ve come back to check on a baby.

Cary Wolinsky and Bob Caputo have a combined 64 years of experience photographing stories for National Geographic and other ... backyard—is patience. Wild animals are going to do what they ...

Your cat can recognize your voice. Yes, really. Your cat can recognize your voice. Yes, really. Why animal teachers are so rare—and remarkable Why animal teachers are so rare—and remarkable ...

This article is adapted from Joel Sartore’s new book, Vanishing, published by National Geographic Books. Joel Sartore has been photographing animals for his Photo Ark project for 13 years.

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... scientists are taking extraordinary measures to save the animals they love. Playing the PartWhite-naped crane ...

Jaagir Manor lies at the pulsating heart of the great Terai ecosystem, home to Bengal tigers, secretive denizens of this ...

A fox leaps out of the shadowy blackness and in a moment the animal’s evolutionary gamble to shun daylight for darkness has failed. But for the nocturnal hunter, it has paid off. While most ...

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This story appears in the October 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. After videos of slow lorises being tickled and fed rice balls in captivity swept the Internet, the wide-eyed animals ...

Scientists first observed this comical behavior among day octopus in 2018 and 2019 in the Red Sea, which intrigued National Geographic Explorer ... Planck Institute of Animal Behavior. “ ...