About 2,000 years later, Martínez recruited the help of a very well-known name in regards to underwater discoveries– Dr.

The WonderLab project, by photographer Anand Varma, showcases the hidden world of small creatures at the Washington Center on ...

National Geographic Explorer-at-Large Bob Ballard revisits the Iron Bottom Sound—rediscovering vessels, and making new finds.

Dr. Jane Goodall DBE, UN Messenger of Peace and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute was certainly a rarity among conservationists: She was a household name. For more than six de ...

In large part because of her, I became a primatologist, co-discovered a new species of lemur in Madagascar, and have had an ...

A British explorer has made history by becoming the first person to reach seven of the planet's most inaccessible places.

A National Geographic Explorer's search for Cleopatra's tomb got a big breakthrough. Kathleen Martínez has spent the last 20 years searching for the lost tomb of Cleopatra. Her work is part of a new ...

In “Lost in the Jungle,” Oscar winners Jimmy Chin and Chai Vasarhelyi (“Free Solo”) teamed with Colombian filmmaker Juan Camilo Cruz to tell the story of four Indigenous siblings, aged 13, 9, 5 and 11 ...

NEDERLAND, Texas — Nederland High School physics teacher Wendy Lapeyrolerie received recognition Thursday for placing as a national runner-up in the "Meet a National Geographic Explorer" essay contest ...

During the Middle Passage more than a 1,000 slave ships sank on the way from Africa to the Americas, drowning an estimated 1.8 million people, most of them Africans. Less than 20 of those sunken slave ...

National Geographic announced it has acquired the streaming rights to "Ghost Elephants," which is written, directed and narrated by Werner Herzog and features National Geographic Explorer Steve Boyes.