To date, more than a thousand people have claimed to have seen Nessie. Photograph by Keystone, Getty Images Irish missionary St. Columba first wrote about the mythical beast in 565 A.D. Allegedly ...

Famous artist Henri Matisse designed and decorated the small chapel. Photograph by Jumping Rocks/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Steve Wilkison, a California native who moved to Vence in ...

And not just any photographs — National Geographic photographs. As our Director of Photography, Leen estimates she has looked at as many images ... male southern sea lion, about nine feet ...

“If there is a species that we might be able to engage with in some kind of two-way communication, these guys are really good candidates.” Bottlenose dolphins living near Sarasota, Florida ...

Scientists suspect many species are in decline—but there are still unanswered questions and a lot of hope. Here's when and where you can still spot them. Experts say a "concerning" number of ...

Beneath sea urchins’ exterior spines, rounded skeletons called tests are jewels of color, texture, and symmetry. There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on ...