Decades ago, India’s tigers were on the brink of extinction. Slowly, their numbers have rebounded. But that ecological success has prompted a dire problem—and a race to save many of them from genetic ...

A natural experiment in a national park in Patagonia shows how the return of a large predator can reshape an ecosystem. Long absent from Argentinian Patagonia due to over-hunting, pumas have returned ...

Gordon Burghardt kept a lion cub named Meg in his home at the behest of the Knoxville Zoo. To help Meg get out some energy, Burghardt and his wife would often play with Meg in their wooded, unfenced ...

Mikey Smith contacts National Geographic directly, claiming they are part of a larger deception about space. The exchange is documented in this episode. Trump’s golf course takeover sparks outrage ...

Filmmaker Bertie Gregory's new documentary special captures the extreme challenges facing the world's fastest land animal. In his new documentary special, Bertie Gregory follows cheetahs during the ...

Hundreds of cats, from purebreds to rescues, competed for glory at the world's largest cat show in Cleveland, Ohio. A cat owner from Mithra Cattery gives her Persian cat a massage after a long day at ...

New research finds new puppy parents sometimes struggle with time management and other issues. We asked experts for tips to ensure that all members of a household thrive. A female mixed-breed puppy ...

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 ...

The Awesome Song by Handyman Hal kids show. Check out all the fun Handyman Hal has on his show. We play and learn with tools for kids. Building toys and making things. Come explore the channel with ...

Beneath the cliffs of western Colorado, a billion years of geologic history unfolds—and a century-old dream of accessibility still shapes the land. Located near Grand Junction, Colorado, the Colorado ...

It’s never too early to instill in your children a love for printed matter. Magazine subscriptions make great last-minute holiday gifts and, while the effort to sign up is minimal, your recipient will ...

This story originally published in the September 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine. See more digitized stories from our archives here. The biologist Iain Douglas-Hamilton is walking up on an ...