National Geographic Explorer Bertie Gregory explores the extraordinary lives of bees, among the planet's important animals, ...

New science is showing that nature’s vital pollinators are smarter than we ever imagined. Here’s why that discovery should ...

LOS ANGELES -- In order to keep up with the animals and tell their story, the "Animals Up Close With Bertie Gregory" crew had to push themselves to the limits. As a wildlife filmmaker and National ...

NEW YORK -- Bertie Gregory is a man who nurtured his interest in the natural world as a teenager and then developed a special talent for sharing his enthusiasm on TV. Now he travels the world for ...

A decades-long quest reveals the remarkable truth about how these giant creatures have remained so elusive. The ghost elephants that live in the highlands of Angola behave like almost no others on ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...

One photographer captures nature’s ultimate glow-up—the stunning ways animals fluoresce at night. Lit by an ultraviolet flashlight, this common yellow scorpion shines bright cyan against the rusty ...

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the experts their thoughts on how conceivable the plot is. Some scientists believe ...

A pest to ranchers, a prize to hunters, and a temperamental tank to anything that bothers it, African buffalo roam by the thousands in sub-Saharan Africa. Cape buffalo, one of four distinct subspecies ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

Amir Khalil and his rescue team scanned the horizon for the convoy as they waited anxiously at the Turkish border, sweltering in the 100-degree July heat. They would be on edge until it arrived safely ...