Putting the well-being of animals first should be every photographer’s goal. National Geographic photographers share tips on how they do it.

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A century after British explorer Robert Scott reached the South Pole, "incredibly rich," rarely seen pictures give an inside look at the ill-fated expedition.

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Explore the relics of failed settlements, doomed expeditions, and ancient Inuit history on Devon Island, one of the Arctic’s most unforgiving landscapes.

These human-size crystals formed in especially strange ways. New clues into ancient climate shifts reveal the possible origin story of Spain's Pulpí Geode, one of the world's largest.

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Twenty epic trails that travel deep into a destination’s history and culture, from Mount Kailash to the Hayduke to the International Appalachian Trail.

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