The Abilene Zoo is celebrating zebras Shinda and Maadili for International Zebra Day. The zoo showcased their one-of-a-kind strip patterns and emphasized just how unique their patterns are.

Their bold black-and-white stripes make them stand out in the wild. Every year, 31 January is observed as International Zebra Day. This day highlights their beauty and the threats they face.

In Bostwana's Makgadikgadi Pans, researcher James Bradley studies how the zebras travel across the great expanse of land Behold the World's Smallest Monkey: The Pygmy Marmoset (02:17) National ...

AN article in the January issue of the National Geographic Magazine, which begins the sixty-ninth volume, records the remarkable growth of interest in the publication and its widespread circulation.

Peter Gwin is an editor at large for National Geographic and cohost of the award-winning podcast Overheard. He began as a staff writer for the magazine in 2003, and has contributed stories from an ...

This story appears in the June 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. I’ve come back to check on a baby. Just after dusk I’m in a car lumbering down a muddy road in the rain, past rows of ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. In her office on the 17th floor of MIT’s Building 54, Sara Seager is about as close to space as you can get in ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The young woman was carried into the hospital at 9:30 a.m. Twenty minutes earlier she had been hanging laundry when a ...

This story appears in the April 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Rats are our shadow selves. We live on the surface of the city; they generally live below. We mostly work by day ...

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This story appears in the July 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. The race for the ages can be run only in our imagination: Usain Bolt vs. Jesse Owens. Bolt is in his 21st-century lane ...