A female Thomson's gazelle and her calf look across the plains after surviving a jackal attack. As parents, we can often make so many decisions through the day. We then usually doubt the decisions ...

Cockroaches that catch a ride on ants. Grasshoppers that climb aboard sheep. Hitchhiking animals are more common than you think. A classic example of phoresy, the remora uses a modified fin that ...

For more than 60 million years, penguins of all kinds—including the opportunistic Magellanic penguin—have been driven by an evolutionary urge to reach beyond their boundaries. Today, many are ...

From diving off cliffs to starving for months, emperor penguins are continuing to surprise scientists with their ability to adapt to one of the world’s most extreme environments. LEAP OF FAITHHundreds ...

National Geographic program features animal odd couples. Jan. 13, 2011— -- There are some friendships that defy explanation. One of nature's fiercest cats isn't supposed to fall for a ...

Underdogs OTT Release Date: Ryan Reynolds is back, but this time, he’s not playing a superhero or a snarky hitman. He’s lending his voice (and signature humour) to a new National Geographic show ...

From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes can be their biggest advantages. In UNDERDOGS, Ryan Reynolds champions the ...

Cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev successfully installed the first ICARUS experiment antenna on the outside hull of the International Space Station during a nearly eight-hour space walk in ...

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.) Przewalski's horses once ...

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: ...