Lightning strikes above Bangkok, Thailand, in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

Elena Chernyshova worked for months documenting the life of the residents of Norilsk, a Russian city and former gulag built to serve a massive mine north of the Arctic Circle. C

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For parts of three years he looked for the colony. It was challenging terrain. "There were crevices everywhere and many places where we couldn't take our Ski-Doo."

Photographer releases mesmerizing footage of dangerous thunderstorms.

A king penguin stands near an abandoned whaling station on South Georgia Island in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

Whether the Aztecs associated the buried dogs with such symbolism is still unknown. The researchers hope that the burial offers deeper insights into how dogs were regarded by the residents of the chief city of the Aztecs.

Over the next few days, we will go behind the scenes of the winning shots with the photographers and their picture editors. Here, John Stanmeyer and Kim Hubbard share their thoughts on “Signal,” which took the top prize of 2013 Photo of the Year.

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Asian elephants, like great apes, dogs, certain corvids (the bird group that includes ravens), and us, have now been shown to recognize when a herd mate is upset and to offer gentle caresses and chirps of sympathy.

Ice covers the surface of Japan's Lake Towada in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

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It's possible, in other words, that a black hole is a conduit—a "one-way door," says Dr. Poplawski—between two universes. This means that if you tumble into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way, it's conceivable that you (or at least the shredded particles that were once you) will end up in...

But how deeply rooted our penchant for music is still eludes researchers. It could be that music is simply an extension of our ability to imitate sounds, while others including Charles Darwin have proposed that a sense of rhythm is common in all animals as a consequence of similar wiring in our nerv...

Sheep graze on a mountainside in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

"Although I often have trained bats to come to my hand on call to facilitate feeding them and to help them overcome their fear of me, I don't have to train them to do what comes naturally, like visiting a bat-adapted flower or catching a fish. They quickly learn to ignore my camera and flashes."

The Winter Olympics are finally in full swing. See highlights from the first week of the Olympics, captured by Your Shot community members.

The bright moon moves into late night skies this week, offering backyard observers some early-evening opportunities to hunt down celestial sights.

Penned bluefin tuna are fattened for the sushi market in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from Brian Skerry.

From elephants to squirrels, unusually white animals often hold a special place in society.

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The findings do reinforce common perceptions about height. "Height seems to affect our sense of social status," he says, and being taller tends to be socially desirable.

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Mount Kelud, long known for its powerful eruptions, blasted ash and debris 12 miles into the air. According to Indonesia's disaster agency, the eruption could be heard up to 125 miles (200 kilometers) away.

A cloud formation resembles a fish in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

He then started coming to the Ol Donyo Lodge waterhole about ten years later and became one of our resident bulls. From day one he had a very mellow temperament and was easy to approach, so we were always able to get up close and get to know him. I watched his ivory grow, probably nearly doubling in...

Darwinilus sedarisi joins about 58,000 known species of rove beetles. That's "more than ten times the number of mammals in the world, yet we know very little about them," Chatzimanolis said.

You might think of crocodiles lurking in the water or perhaps sunning themselves on a riverbank, but it turns out these toothy reptiles’ domain extends to the upper branches of trees.

A great egret hunts on a foggy morning in this National Geographic Photo of the Day from our Your Shot community.

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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