The Pulitzer-winning composer, whose unconventional music reflects the rugged landscapes he lives in, talks about his ...

The Bering Strait is 82 kilometers of cold, shallow water separating Alaska from Russia. It is also, according to a new ...

Mosquito Lagoon, a shallow waterway on Florida’s central Atlantic coast, had lost nearly all of its underwater seagrass ...

In the fourth episode of our Stones & Bones video series, National Geographic digital editor Nicholas St. Fleur examines the ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

Some 80 million years ago, the late Cretaceous oceans were patrolled by 17-meter mosasaurs, long-necked plesiosaurs, and ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

The Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has taken part in a study published in the ...