That averages out at just under 40 Humboldt chicks popping into the world every day ... use that as a ballpark estimate for all the animal species as a whole. There are believed to be around ...

But while we’re busy chasing “bigger,” we're overlooking a very rich and varied part of the ecosystem — yes, we’re talking ...

The Whole Wide World kicked off in 2001 as a showcase for ... just big enough to encompass all the music to be heard and delighted in. Big shoes to fill? Most certainly. Rita tended her garden ...

Pay attention to the world of your daily, waking life and you’ll find yourself surrounded by a whole ... all unified by the ...

The death of the world's last male northern white rhino has ... Last male northern white rhino dies Can you be sure an endangered animal has gone extinct? The International Union for Conservation ...

In the animal kingdom, reproduction is a necessary ... regenerate the missing piece while the broken part grows into a whole other starfish. Of the approximate 1,800 extant species of starfish ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...

Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to ...

In fact, several animals exhibit these types of behaviours ... Solitary adult males travel far and wide to collect all manner of blue things with which to decorate their bower (consisting of two ...

the world’s smallest vertebrate discovered only last year in Brazil. All the same biological functions keeping the seven-millimeter-long amphibian alive can be found in humans, elephants, as well as ...

“All the stress of nearly 20 years fell away ... receiving data from roughly 3,500 tagged animals around the world. But then, in the winter of 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, and the West ...

The natural world seems like a busy place. But the truth is, most animals spend most of the time doing absolutely nothing at all. It's not ... of cryo-preserving the whole body – immediately ...