Asia's second-largest biosphere, Similipal National Park, re-opened for tourists on Saturday in Mayurbhanj, Odisha. While ...

Bats belong to the order Chiroptera-not Rodentia. They're actually more closely related to primates than they are to rodents.

The article discusses Goway Travel's custom 10-day trip in India, exploring beyond the Golden Triangle of New Delhi, Agra, ...

WASHINGTON, DC — Californian Priya Talreja, a Fremont native has been named one of just five researchers nationwide to receive the highly coveted 2025 Fulbright-National Geographic Award. The $20,000 ...

Dr. James McNutt, the president and CEO of the National Museum of Wildlife Art, is stepping down from his role at the end of September, the museum announced last week. McNutt has held the position ...

On the protected-area front, India now maintains 1,022 protected areas, encompassing 178,640 sq km — or 5.43% of its ...

The findings of a new study about communication between birds also offer key insights into the origins of language.

Through her groundbreaking work with chimps in Africa, Goodall helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent. Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall’s decades of research into the ...

Bethany Kiss receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sarah Bekessy receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the National Health and Medical Research Council, the Ian ...

G Adventures and National Geographic Expeditions have further strengthened their decade-long partnership with the launch of a new premium lifestyle collection, National Geographic Signature with G ...

For the first time in National Geographic magazine's 136-year history, a cover story has been written and photographed entirely in India, by an Indian. At the heart of it is the hauntingly beautiful ...

This story originally published in the July 1906 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. Looking back to that period, many years ago, when the finger ...