This natural survival strategy, known as coprophagy, reveals how wildlife makes the most of every available resource.

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This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...

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CETI hopes that if humans can understand what’s going on inside whales’ minds—and, eventually, the minds of other animals—it ... a marine biologist and National Geographic Explorer ...

About 35 leopards live in and around this park. That’s an average of less than two square miles of habitat apiece, for animals that can easily range ten miles in a day. These leopards also live ...

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An international team of researchers discovered a new specimen called Quaestio simpsonorum—a pancake-shaped creature that ...

But this is precisely what understanding death essentially means: grasping that a dead individual can no longer do what they ...

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