Life in the Arctic is brutal. Food isn't always readily available, so the fight for food can turn ugly pretty quick. An encounter between a male polar bear and a mother with her cub turns ugly pretty quick. After taking off with her cub after they got too close to the male, it doesn't take long ...

Most people will never see Mount Everest in person, much less actually climb it. For those who do make the journey and complete the climb, we'd imagine they're probably content with their accomplishment and move on to another goal in most cases. That's not the case for Apa Sherpa. He's completed ...

Tagging sharks isn't for the faint of heart. What can seem like a perfectly easy catch can turn dangerous in an instant, just like the tiger shark the guys off of Shark Men captured. It may have been calm in the water, but once it got pulled out it was another story entirely. Luckily, they ...

It'd be a hard task to find anything more beautiful than Angel Falls. Located in Venezuela, this 3,212-foot tall waterfall might be even more dangerous than it is pretty to look at — if you're climbing it. National Geographic follows biologist Federico Pisani and his climbing partner as they ...

Crocodiles aren't exactly known for being small, but the croc that Australian wrangler Matt Wright caught and posted a picture of earlier this month was one of the biggest we've seen. When he described the croc as being the size of "10 of me," he wasn't exaggerating. ...

It's hard to take anyone seriously when they start talking about a real life cyclops, but in the case of a one-eyed goat born in a village in India, the story is all too real. This isn't just a goat with one normal eye and one that's missing either, it was born with a rare condition known as ...

Exploring the unknown (for you at least) just got a whole lot easier. Thanks to everyone over at National Geographic, every single US Geological Survey topographical map is available and ready to be printed on an easy to use website. This is great news, especially considering finding a map ...

If you can see the sun, you're unlikely to ever see a ghost shark. That's because ghost sharks, or chimaeras, are found so deep underwater that the sun's rays can't penetrate. This particular ghost shark, which is a pointy-nosed blue chimaera, was filmed in 2009 in the North Pacific for the ...

According to National Geographic, underwater photography isn't featured by them very often because it's hard to get great underwater photos. It's clear that isn't the case for these 15 incredible underwater shots that NG has dubbed the best underwater photos of 2016. Looking at them, we find it ...

PUERTO PRINCESA, PHILIPPINES  Years ago Christopher Tubo caught a 660-pound blue marlin in the South China Sea. The fishing was good there, he says. Tuna fishermen would come home from a trip with dozens of the high-value fish as well as a good haul of other species. “Here there’s ...

Tuna Cowboys is an award winning National Geographic documentary that ventures into the Southern Ocean to capture the first ever footage of the Southern Blue Fin Tuna muster. Produced and directed by Mike Bhana at Natural History New Zealand, Motion Pacific provided topside camera and field ...

Located off the coast of Panama, the world's largest open-ocean fish farm raises hundreds of thousands of cobia fish in colossal underwater pods. Brian O'Hanlon, whose company runs the farms, hopes to bring this sustainable aquaculture approach to more coasts, and cobia to more plates. He arrived ...

Watch a moose shed one of its antlers as a startled Wyoming family records from a window close by. All male moose grow and lose their antlers each year, but it's rare to catch it on camera. https://youtu.be/pKCgWwWk1KY

You've seen the viral photo, now here's the story from the man who took the photo! Brian Skerry describes the exhilaration of an up-close encounter with a curious, 45-foot-long right whale. https://youtu.be/K0_h3AAn7Pk