Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

In a nutshell Scientists discovered sea turtles can learn and remember specific magnetic field signatures of geographic ...

The Gulf of Mexico is now called the Gulf of America for Google Maps users in the United States, keeping with the terms of ...

“The Southern Ocean has long been recognized by scientists, but because there was never agreement internationally, we never officially recognized it,” says National Geographic Society ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘There’s nothing like it in any other ocean,’ says marine biologist Brian Lapointe. ‘There’s nowhere else on ...

“That conical nose just pierces through the ocean.” Though mature females ... take all the time …” Society Grant Your National Geographic Society membership helped fund this project.

National Geographic scientists recently discovered the world's largest coral colony in the southwest Pacific Ocean, deemed the "mega" coral. The National Geographic Society's Pristine Seas team ...