What It Feels Like to Swim With Whales
Anuar Patjane is a photographer who last year won National Geographic's photo contest for a picture of a humpback whale and her calf. He relives his...
Anuar Patjane is a photographer who last year won National Geographic's photo contest for a picture of a humpback whale and her calf. He relives his...
Meet Tammy and Lucho. They're tamanduas, the smaller cousins of the giant anteater. When a predator gets too close, the tamandua will release a stinky...
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In 2013, a federal law retired all chimpanzees at the National Institutes of Health from lab testing. Chimp Haven was founded to respond to the need...
In the northwest region of Cambodia, there’s a 12th century Buddhist temple that's been left almost untouched. As trees and giant roots have r...
Of the hundreds of species of lemurs on Madagascar, it is one of the most endangered. The rainforests they call home are also highly valued for their...
Jim Campbell-Spickler is brave. The wildlife biologist climbs into eagle nests hundreds of feet off the ground to capture chicks and test their blood...
This is Olivia. These elegant cranes stand about four feet tall and mostly live in grasslands near water, but are quickly disappearing. Habitat loss...
Sea lions — they're chubby and even cuddly-looking. But some people claim they're territorial and aggressive. Not freediver Galyn Franklin. He’s bee...
Imagine an island filled only with rabbits. Okunoshima is a small island in Japan’s Inland Sea. It's called "Rabbit Island" because of the thousands o...
Meet Wicket. He's a red panda. Slightly larger than a house cat, with reddish-brownish fur and a raccoon-like tail, he lives in trees and feeds mainly...
Draco volans, more commonly known as the flying dragon, looks like a miniature version of something Daenerys Targaryen flies on in "Game of Thrones."...