These pirates left the Caribbean behind—and stole the biggest booty ever. They may not be household names today, but the riches they plundered—from the Mughal Empire and the East India Company ...

This is how National Geographic Explorer Jahawi Bertolli is protecting the ocean. His work has taken him across Kenya, from the remote northern coast to the Masai Mara National Reserve ...

Dolphins can identify their friends by taste, study shows for the first time. The marine mammals use several cues, including unique whistles, to form a complex awareness of others in their minds.

On the morning of November 21, 1916, the British ocean liner Britannic—then outfitted as a hospital ship during World War I—was cruising the Aegean Sea on its way to the bloody battlefield of ...

Going to the beach is good for your brain, according to science. Visiting the coast can help you relieve stress and get more active—and it may even change the way you cope with pain.

“When there is no water, nothing green, the sand becomes very strong, a very fast enemy,” says Sbai. “It takes a lot of land.” The desert is pressing in from every direction.

The December 18 explosion is the region’s fourth in three years—and has fired out 10 times more lava per second than any of the past three at their peaks. Here's what happens next.

When humpbacks get stuck in fishing gear, their friends stick around to help. Are whales altruistic? A new scientific paper and a video present a compelling case the answer is “yes.” ...

Albert José Jones is considered the godfather of Black scuba diving in the U.S. He founded the country’s oldest Black diving club, Underwater Adventure Seekers in Washington, D.C., in 1959, and ...

In 2014, he created a dive protocol—the first of its kind— that would allow him to spend a full 24 hours 65 feet under the ocean while limiting the amount of time it takes to decompress.

Bizarre Spinosaurus makes history as first known swimming dinosaur. A newfound fossil tail from this giant predator stretches our understanding of how—and where—dinosaurs lived.

On Friday, a powerful 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, just after 5:02 PM Western Indonesian Time. Dramatic videos revealed the eerie growth of a mounting wave in ...