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

Photojournalist Ami Vitale followed Przewalski’s horses—once declared extinct in the wild—on a 2,000-mile journey back to their ancestral home. (And only one tried to escape.) ...

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

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

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

The heroes who saved the world's last tigers Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger population was under dire threat. In this beautifully photographed feature, National ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages. Found across every continent except ...

While on assignment in Romania, photographer Jasper Doest found himself uncomfortably close to a bear—leading to an image that captures tensions conservationists face in the region. Imagine being this ...

Much of the three-part “Planet Weird,” which goes out of its way to find the nutty in nature, is simultaneously fascinating and disgusting—the much sought-after synthesis of wildlife programming: ...

The National Geographic Explorer dedicated her life not just to chimpanzees, but global conservation. Jane Goodall studied the chimpanzees of Gombe starting in 1960, making hers the longest field ...

If you've ever noticed human-like qualities about your pets, you're not going nuts—several animals, even the most exotic-seeming wildlife, do have a surprising amount in common with us mere homo ...