Scientists hope understanding coyote widowhood will someday help humans in their own grief. A pair of coyotes (Canis latrans) in Griffith Park, Los Angeles. Unlike most other animals, coyotes have ...

In the rugged terrain where Mexico and the United States meet, a border wall is just the latest obstacle fragmenting habitats and disrupting migration paths. Here’s how a cadre of conservationists is ...

Removing trees deprives the forest of portions of its canopy, which blocks the sun’s rays during the day and retains heat at ...

With major eclipses, brilliant supermoons, and lineups of five or more planets, 2026 offers something awe-inspiring in every season. Here’s what to watch for. Solar prominences and their associated ...

The new National Geographic series Pole to Pole ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose venom may yield new life-saving drugs. In episode 2 of Pole to Pole, Will Smith captures a ...

With just over 1,000 mountain gorillas left in the wild, any evidence of reproduction is cause for celebration. But the news out of the Democratic Republic of Congo this week is doubly exciting—a ...

Shred an air guitar in Finland. Have an epic water fight in Thailand. Slice rival kites from the sky in India. These ...

Casey Anderson credited forgetfulness and procrastination for the treasure-trove of footage the camera captured.

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Octopus and other cephalopods are good at hiding themselves—and are inspiring cutting-edge technologies that may help us do the same. Cephalopods like the giant Pacific octopus (Enteroctopus dofleini) ...

A new study overturns previous findings that domestic cats originated thousands of years earlier. An African wildcat (Felis lybica) rests on a rock in Kruger National Park, South Africa. So far, ...

The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute is home to more than 2,200 animals across its campuses in D.C. and Virginia. The zoo was the first in the United States to hire a ...