Life on Sonsorol revolves around the reefs, and the children’s play teaches them many important skills.  Viewed from ...

IT’S THE BLUE OF HOT METAL against the damp blue of sky, a flutter in the white pine, a bright tatter high up. When it ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Kiliii Yüyan brings to life stories from the Arctic sea ice, beneath the waves, ...

What was your last memorable animal encounter? As I watched a group of mountain gorillas in Rwanda, a huge male crashed through the bamboo grove and sat down right beside me. He leaned his immense ...

RIGHT HERE, RIGHT HERE, she sings, but I can no longer hear her words, her pacing, the shaping of each sound gliding past lips now gone. It’s been almost fifteen years since she ran out of air, died ...

"If you want to see a whale you won’t." ...

“STOP THE BOAT!” I yelled. “There’s something wrong with that water!” Dead ahead, the calm sea rose in a glassy bulge. “STOP!” I screamed. My husband jammed the skiff into neutral and spun the wheel.

WITH A HEART THE SIZE OF a piano tucked inside a two-hundred-ton body, the elusive blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is the largest known animal to have ever inhabited Earth. If you are fortunate ...

I need most, less grief or greater patience. I tabulate the facts we’re learning: when a large whale dies, it sinks, creates what’s called a whale fall, its body becoming a deep-sea ecology that can ...

TWO GRAY WHALES SWAM CLOSE to the westernmost edge of Cape Lookout, a narrow headland that juts out nearly two miles into the Pacific on the northern Oregon Coast. I peered down from a ...