Tiktaalik, part fish, part four-legged animal, is believed to be the first creature to develop characteristics that would help animals move out of the water and on to land. It had gills ...

these extinct primates to the continent—painting ... The natural world is full of examples of animals undertaking extraordinary journeys across oceans, driven by geological forces and chance ...

This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

A growing group of scientists is trying to bring back extinct animals, an idea that is drawing closer than ever because of recent advances in gene editing. Shapiro, one of the world’s leading ...

No group of animals has a higher rate of endangerment than amphibians. Scientists estimate that a third or more of all the roughly 6,300 known species of amphibians are at risk of extinction [6].