He behaved like a gator basking in the sun rather than one in the middle of a science experiment ... An engraving of the scene created a national sensation in Great Britain.

Photograph by Joel Sartore, National Geographic Photo Ark The earliest multicelled animals that survived the Precambrian fall into three main categories. The simplest of these soft-bodied ...

This story appears in the December 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine and is part ... to keep from being eaten—including by us. Can science create commercial tomatoes that taste the ...

Under a microscope in the Civic Museum of Natural Science in Bergamo, several fish scales glistened in the abdominal region of the specimen—the remnants of this pterosaur's last meal.

The tests are too expensive for most individuals—National Geographic paid for mine, which would normally cost around $15,000—and only a few labs have the technical expertise to detect the ...

"Just before the dinosaurs disappeared, I think a lot of them were chowing down on flowering plants," says Kirk Johnson of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Johnson has unearthed many fossils ...

I discovered that some dealers are careful collectors and honest businessmen; others are disreputable and brutish, ripping bones from national parks ... and enemies of science, a charge I came ...