The United Nations has added four new nature sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List, meaning they have been found to be "superlative natural phenomena", which is one of the selection criteria. The new sites are the Keny...

This photograph was taken by Rick Sheremeta, who tells us about the shot. On a recent photo trip to Alaska's McNeil River, I spent four days observing and photographing Brown Bears. The bears routine became pretty obvio...

(YouTube link) Relax, no bears were harmed in the making of this video. This is a video about National Geographic photographer Michael Melford on an expedition to take pictures of bears. But that doesn't mean there'...

You remember the Sy-Fy movie Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus, in which an oversized shark leaped from the ocean and snagged an airliner? That was fantasy, but there are real sharks that can leap up to ten feet above the wat...

This looks like a painting, but it is a photograph. Photographer Frans Lanting took this picture of camel thorn trees in Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. The orange is a sand dune rising in the background. It was chosen a...

Photographer Guido Mocafico takes pictures of snakes, but it wasn't always so. He was once deathly afraid of them! The first time I photographed a snake up close, I nearly fainted. I’d always found them terrifying, bu...

The tree named Ochroma pyramidale is better known as the balsa tree, from which we get lightweight wood to make model airplanes. But its flowers are more valuable to many species in Panama, because they bloom at night du...

On January 27, 1888, a group of 165 prominent men in Washington, DC incorporated a club called the National Geographic Society. Its first president, lawyer Gardiner Green Hubbard, was the father-in-law and early financi...