“Pyrethrin is the most important insecticide in the world,” says Joel Maina Kibett, chief agriculture officer of Nakuru ...

In and around the Howardian Hills, chefs are crafting dishes that sing of this county’s rich larder, with ingredients like ...

These ancient trees persisted for nearly 200 million years until they all but vanished. Now they line city streets.

Research shows SAR dogs are driven by rewards and scent work, not heroism, and most showed long-term emotional resilience.

Across the globe, a race is under way to crack some of the last mysterious forms of writing that have never been translated.

Some plants produce heat, which has long puzzled botanists. But a new study suggests that infrared radiation is an ancient ...

Webs can be decorated with decoys, fine-tuned like guitars—and hold secrets about evolution. A Cyclosa spider is camouflaged on a web with debris attached to make itself less visible at the Los Amigos ...

The gorilla moves with quiet majesty through Uganda’s highland forests, while across the country, communities are stepping up ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

The first step for novices, Tan says, is simply to get outside and look around. You can start by taking note of the birds you ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...

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, ...