Nature & Wildlife

We’ve just about reached the 2025 finish line. Father Time—that elderly, bearded man with an hourglass in one hand and a scythe in the other—will once agai...

It was our second day out driving in our open-air jeep in Botswana’s Kalahari Game Reserve when the raindrops started to fall. As we’d headed out tha...

From the moment they enter the world, Asia’s largest mammals and fiercest predators begin life at their most vulnerable. Whether it’s a newborn elephant le...

Chitwan National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is a vast nature reserve in the southern lowlands of Nepal. Chitwan is Nepal’s first national pa...

Africa is a massive continent with astonishing diversity in climate, culture, flora and fauna. But if you’re after the classic safari experience, Eas...

When traveling, it’s easy to see new landscapes and animals, perhaps check them off a bucket list, snap a photo and then move on. But you’ll walk away with...

Migration is a wonderful word. It doesn’t merely mean a physical relocation but is an expression of strength, resilience, the universal desire for well-bei...

You’re standing on the outdoor platform of a Polar Rover, feeling more alert than you have in a long time as the cold Arctic air sharpens your senses. You ...

All organisms on Earth are traditionally placed into six kingdoms of life: Animalia (animals), Archaebacteria (bacteria often found in extreme environments...

From birds to flowers, the majority of the Earth’s species stem from a few evolutionary “explosions,” where new habitats or traits sparked rapid diversific...

Bison, pronghorn and elk amble across Yellowstone’s grasslands. Aspens and willows speckle the forests of pine, spruce, fir and juniper, which shelter griz...

By Matt Kareus When most travelers think of an African safari, images of the Serengeti’s migrating herds or Botswana’s lush Okavango Delta usually come to ...

Large herbivores—such as bison and elk—have continuously lived in the Yellowstone National Park region for at least 2,300 years, according to a new analysi...

For a relatively small country, Costa Rica offers remarkably rich wildlife and nature opportunities. Anyone with an eye trained on eco-friendly, conservati...

Right now, as you’re probably finalizing your plans for the end-of-the-year holidays, there are some new developments in travel—and family get-togethers—th...

The Amazon river dolphin is known as the boto in Brazil and as bufeo or bufeo Colorado in Spanish-speaking parts of the Amazon Basin, including Peru, Colom...

A spotted lowland tapir calf rustles through the brush among the flat-topped, clustered rock formations, or tepuis, of Serranía de Chiribiquete National Pa...

At the end of the year, many of our holiday celebrations revolve around food, such as a Thanksgiving feast or a Christmas dinner. This food-intensive seaso...