From an elusive jaguar to an industrious beaver, photographers captured iconic animal moments around the world.

National Geographic's annual Pictures of the Year issue features stunning wildlife photos highlighting endangered species and fragile ecosystems.

Project Tiger, undertaken at the instigation of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1973, had set aside 9 national parks for special protection (14 more have been added since). The core areas of these ...

Unlike its interior cousins, gray wolves of Vancouver Island live with two paws in the ocean and two paws on land.

Hamilton, the zoologist who dedicated his life to saving Africa’s elephants from systematic slaughter—despite being nearly tusked through the gut.

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...