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

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.

Welcome to Nat Geo Your Shot: National Geographic’s global community for aspiring visual storytellers. Find the community on Instagram @NatGeoYourShot and follow along for hashtag challenges ...

Lynsey Addario was born in Connecticut.Despite having no formal training she began her photography career working for the Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina in 1996. After freelancing in Latin ...

Great white sharks may change their color to sneak up on prey. First-of-their-kind experiments suggest the world’s largest predatory fish can switch between dark and light gray in a matter of hours.

National Geographic’s SHARKFEST wouldn’t exist without the film that changed cinema - and our relationship with sharks - forever: “Jaws.” This summer, in tribute to the movie that sparked ...

How bioluminescence works in nature. Most ocean animals produce their own light or host bacteria that do—a useful skill for communication, finding prey, camouflage, and more.

That can take many forms, including glare, or excessive brightness; sky glow, which drowns out the night sky over urban areas; light trespass, or stray light falling where it is not needed; and ...

No assignment happens alone: Nat Geo photographers tell stories of their amazing collaborators in the field. Zamira Loebis (also known as Tatap, or Tap) sits across from photographer John ...

From the National Geographic book The 10 Best of Everything. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The Smithsonian is the world’s largest research and museum complex, with 19 museums and ...

What color are reindeer eyes? Depends on the season. An astrophysicist and an eye expert teamed up to solve the mystery of how and why reindeers’ eyes switch from yellow to blue in wintertime.

Land animals aren’t the only ones to glow under UV light, and in some ways the phenomenon makes more sense in the ocean because of how underwater environments impact light.