The Oreo-sized baby turtle represents a turning point in Rockalina's recovery: Spending time with her own kind.

A few hundred miles off the coast of Ecuador is a little string of islands with a big place in the public consciousness. The word “Galapagos” is practically synonymous with “tropical island ...

You may know sargassum as the stinky algae that periodically washes ashore, but it’s been an important breeding habitat for many marine species in the Atlantic.

A Galápagos bird species is stunning behaviorists with their “freewheeling” lifestyles. Described in the journal PLOS One, ...

Perched on a plastic chair overlooking a colony of Nazca boobies in the Galápagos Islands, researcher David Anderson ...

Under the surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with ...

Rocky cliffs run into the Adriatic Sea near Ancona, Italy. There, above the pebbly coast in 2019, rock climbers explored ...

Conservationists are hoping to strengthen regulations at a wildlife trade conference on birds, reptiles and other animals ...

With translucent sapphire water and endless sandbars, the Exumas are the ultimate dreamy, easygoing charter destination.

National Geographic-Lindblad Expeditions has announced "The Expedition That Started it All" offer, with up to 20 percent off ...

Joaquim Avelino Fragoso used to kill sea turtles to eat or to sell when he saw them in the coastal waters and beaches around ...