For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

Vibrant red “lobster claw” heliconia flowers and wild ginger grow like weeds ... The Rockefeller Foundation and members of the National Geographic Society for their generous support of this ...

Giraffe numbers have dropped by 40 percent in 30 years, to about 110,000 in the wild. This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic ... Republic of the Congo, noticeably ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... I was awestruck by the wild artistry that floods the town’s narrow streets. There were frighteningly beautiful ...

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

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This weekend, the group entered the gold-trading center of Bukavu in eastern Congo after government soldiers fled. By Elian Peltier and Justin Makangara Elian Peltier reported from Dakar ...

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 ...