When artist Daniel Zvereff saw Richard Mosse’s “Infra” film project from the Congo, he knew he had to find a way to make the most of the discontinued, magenta-hued film.

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The European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) dictates that facilities can't have too many giraffes with the same genes.

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Umbrellas shield novice monks on a sunny day in Myanmar, in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

Female bearded capuchin monkeys in Brazil’s Serra de Capivara National Park throw rocks at high-ranking males to get their attention, according to recent observations.

Rights groups want Afghan President Hamid Karzai to reject a law protecting perpetrators of domestic violence.

At a London summit, world leaders and ministers demonstrate growing political will for action against wildlife crime.

It's not just the age of the Mesozoic-era discovery that is surprising; it's the shattering of the belief that ichthyosaurs—also dubbed sea monsters—gave birth in water, not on land.

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Women sew a fishing net in the village of Vinh Hy, Vietnam, in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

The winners of a science visualization contest take us into the worlds of coral reefs, fuzzy plants, and stolen passwords.

See photos from Kilian Jornet, a prolific mountain athlete known for his sky running, ski mountaineering, trail running, and more.

Are zoos the conservation sanctuaries they claim to be? In Europe, only 13 percent of the species kept in its zoos are endangered.

President Obama unveils plan for curbing wildlife trafficking and combating organizedcrime in Africa.

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The aurora borealis appears above a smokehouse in Canada's Yukon in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from Paul Nicklen.

Shivering is prompted by cold—it's survival mechanism [that helps us] maintain our core temperature.

When people ask me what makes a Photo of the Day—a curated look at photography around National Geographic—my answer is simple: I have to want to spend time with the picture, says Keefe.

"These bold actions give us all the tools we need to shut down black market elephant ivory trafficking in this country," said William Woody. "We're eliminating the loopholes that help smugglers launder newly poached blood ivory via U.S. markets."

An online petition asking the Copenhagen Zoo to hold off on killing its unwanted giraffe until an alternate home could be found for him received over 27,000 signatures from around the world but was ignored by the zoo. So were offers by wildlife parks in Britain, Sweden, and the Netherlands to take M...

A baby baboon peers out from its mother's arms in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

Researchers found that the bees they collected could fly at air pressure equivalents exceeding 24,275 feet (7,400 meters) above sea level, equivalent to some of the lower peaks in Nepal’s Annapurna mountain range.

By Wednesday, February 12, the moon will form a straight line with two cosmic dogs, Procyon and Sirius.

Researchers have come up with a new, safer, and more humane way of euthanizing beached whales that can't be saved.

Architect Massimo Ricci's theories are explored this Wednesday in a NOVA/National Geographic special on PBS.

Ice covers rocks off the Baltic coast near Gdansk, Poland, in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

The study challenges a long-held picture of a grass-covered "mammoth steppe" covering the polar regions of Europe, Asia, and North America during the last Ice Age.

Sochi isn't the only place with a dog problem. An estimated 250 to 300 million stray dogs roam our planet.

Around Valentine’s Day next week, look for Herculina to pass by one of the most famous stargazing targets for backyard scopes—the supernova remnant known as the Crab Nebula.

A decorative building is under renovation in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

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Now in the largest study of yoga that used biological measures to assess results, it seems that those meditative sun salutations and downward dog poses can reduce inflammation, the body's way of reacting to injury or irritation.

Seafloor "fairy rings" that have stumped scientists have their roots in a toxic plant-killer, a new study says.