Lions, white rhinos, elephants, and giraffes have been reintroduced to a park that was once nearly devastated by civil war.

What are some animals that give birth to huge numbers of offspring at once?” (Watch a female sea urchin produce millions of eggs.) The mola, or ocean sunfish, looks like an animal cracker someone bit ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

The legendary pair share their thoughts on the craft of photography, what goes into a great shot, and what they hope for the ...

In the forests of South Africa lurks an arachnophobe’s nightmare – Nephila kowaci, the largest web-spinning spider in the world. The females of this newly discovered species have bodies that are 3-4 ...

Evarcha culicivora is an indirect vampire, a spider that drinks mammalian blood by preying on female mosquitoes that have previously fed off humans.

The Wisconsin Union Directorate hosted photojournalist Ami Vitale in the first lecture of the 2025-26 Distinguished Lecture ...

Three college friends travelled in July 2025, during the peak Great Migration season, spending nine days across Nairobi, ...

Lions, white rhinos, elephants, and giraffes have been reintroduced to a park that was once nearly devastated by civil war.

The new pesticide, based on the venom of a particular spider, kills common agricultural pests but leaves honeybees unharmed. (See “Honeybees in East Africa Resist Deadly Pathogens.”) The bee-friendly ...

From a legendary Alpine range to a less-traveled but no less stunning alternative to the Mediterranean, here are the year’s ...

A new report has indicated the apparent cause of death of noted primatologist and anthropologist Jane Goodall. Goodall passed ...