Once endorsed by a sultan, Turkish delight has been a sweet treat for centuries; now it’s taking on new forms in Istanbul, ...

The ballista spider builds sophisticated spring-loaded snares to catapult its prey. Newly discovered, the ballista spider ...

Of the roughly 18,000 new species discovered each year, a few have a certain star quality. In 2008, when an orange-haired, ...

A jumble of jellyfish. A very Greenland graduation. A gecko hiding in plain sight. Check out some of the pictures featured in ...

Researchers fed a Komodo dragon a goat to figure out if Homo floresiensis truly were the hunters they were originally thought to be.

Banteay Samre is just one of more than a thousand shrines the Khmer erected in the city of Angkor during a building spree ...

With a bulging head that looks like it swallowed a gavel, there's no mistaking the animal: It’s a hammerhead shark. Across the globe, there are more than nine hammerhead species, many of which are ...

Massive galaxies? Dusty black holes? Black hole stars? Scientists have raised a lot of theories around what the crimson blobs ...

Within 400 milliseconds, your brain and face begin responding to another person's smile, setting off a cascade that researchers are only beginning to understand.

Is that one there?” Kaggie Orrick, a National Geographic Explorer and conservation scientist, asks from the passenger’s seat ...

In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...

At the new Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, curators want to bring visitors astonishingly close to the most fascinating ...