This story appears in the November 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was the time called itingaaro, the dawn twilight, when the island was just waking up and the roosters were vying ...

The big picture: The "mega coral" near the Solomon Islands that's believed to be about 300 years old and measures 105 feet long by 111 feet wide was discovered by the National Geographic Pristine ...

This story is an expanded version of a page that appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. “The weather is absolutely perfect,” an NBC broadcaster announced from an ...

This story appears in the January 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ...

Arrive in Juneau, Alaska’s capital city, in the early afternoon, and embark in time for cocktails and an introduction to the vessel, staff and crew. Spend the day searching for wildlife in ...

Scientists aboard a National Geographic research vessel have uncovered the world’s largest known coral in the southwest Pacific Ocean, a massive specimen of Pavona clavus. Found near the Three ...