This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund recent excavations at Holmul and La Corona, Guatemala.

This story appears in the January 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. This is where the ... and cave bears walking casually, as if in search of a spot for a long winter’s nap.

This story appears in the August 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. We sink into Stargate ... bacterial culturing, and the search for molecular fossils—must wait until she gets back ...

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Outdoor photographer Zak Noyle has seen his share of marine debris, but he was shocked by what he discovered on an ...

This story appears in the January 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘If you take care of the birds, you take care of most of the big problems in the world.’ That’s what Thomas ...

This story appears in the January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. To a degree unimaginable a decade ago, the intensely personal subject of gender identity has entered the public square.

A version of this story appears in the February 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Citrus, in many ways, stands alone. So many cultivated species have come from so few primary ancestors.

National Geographic magazine wanted Jane to write an article about her work—but it ... begins a sentence with “After two months’ search in vain,” Jane cuts him off: “It wasn’t true ...