Police were called to a motel in Virginia where witnesses reported seeing an alligator lurking outside of a guest's room.

Natural World Photography Competition June 15 was Nature Photography Day, and in celebration of that, the winners of the ...

Kingdom Come State Park in Cumberland, Kentucky, delivers that feeling in spades. Perched majestically atop Pine Mountain in Harlan County, this 1,283-acre slice of Appalachian heaven offers the kind ...

A "strange" creature recorded in the deep waters off the coast of Japan represents an exceptionally rare kind of discovery.

Scientists have uncovered that fish biofluorescence a captivating ability to glow in vivid colors has ancient roots stretching back over 100 million years. This trait evolved independently in reef ...

The research maps biofluorescence across 459 glowing fish species and shows just how varied the colors have become.

June 15, 2025 — Underground fungi may be one of Earth s most powerful and overlooked allies in the fight against climate change, yet most of them remain unknown to science. Known only by DNA ...

Welcome to Nat Geo Your Shot: National Geographic’s global community for aspiring visual storytellers. Find the community on Instagram @NatGeoYourShot and follow along for hashtag challenges ...

High School Sports Roundup: La Jolla’s Chiara Dailey wins two section running titles; local teams still alive in baseball and softball ...

The Clark County’s Medical Examiner’s Office has confirmed the motorcyclist who died in a collision with a pickup truck June 6 in Brush Prairie is a 64-year-old school bus driver… Read story ...

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd followed the same guiding philosophy when exhibiting Indigenous people in ...

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