Ancient Maya believed that the rain god Chaak resided in caves and natural wells called cenotes. Maya farmers today in Mexico ...

Read a National Geographic magazine article about general relativity and get information, facts, and more about dark matter.

Since Yellowstone's creation, the role of the national parks has grown and changed, just as the United States has grown and ...

A long-held fascination with North Korea eventually led Marcel Theroux to travel to the most secretive country on Earth, ...

The Aral Sea straddles Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan and for thousands of years was fed by two major rivers, the Amu Darya and ...

It was there that the case of the Denisovan pinkie bone took a startling turn. Pääbo, a transplanted Swede, is arguably the ...

The Amazon tribe has beaten back ranchers and gold miners and famously stopped a dam. Now its leaders must fight again or ...

The mourners have come for a viewing of 68-year-old Fo­neta Jessop, who died of a heart attack a few days ago. In the ...

A cross inlaid in the floor of a library marks the spot where Indiana Jones has to dig to access the ancient catacombs of Venice in the film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. The catacombs, a ...

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At a Catholic convent in Puebla, Mexico, 23-year-old Sister Reina Maria, a novice in the Order of the Discalced Carmelites, ...

Not every feat of taxidermy qualifies as art. But as the art of taxidermy has endured and evolved, it has given form to a ...