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This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Walter looks comfortable. Dead for 50 years, the giant Pacific octopus is resting in a ten-gallon tank of ethanol ...

A version of this story appears in the May 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... experience of holding a magazine in your hands even more of a premium, lean-back delight.

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are ... observers bravely reflected our world back at us. Nasreen Sheikh lives with her parents and ...

This story appears in the August 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. Not every feat of ... it’s impossible not to notice—is swept back a bit like her gorilla’s.

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope ... with Nick and the others gone, I snowshoed back to the President alone. There had been too ...