National Geographic Documentary Films’ “Everest North” (working title), from the Oscar® and BAFTA Award-winning directors of “Free Solo,” Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, is currently in production.

After years of planning, mountaineer Jim Morrison successfully skied down Mount Everest's narrow Hornbein Couloir—notching an achievement that has captivated skiers and alpinists for decades. Read more: https://t.co/WoYCnIIDUi

In honor of National Fossil Day, we're highlighting this mouse deer fossil found in the Abocador de Can Mata, a garbage dump in Spain that has been the source of more than 70,000 fossils from the Miocene era—about 11.2 million to 12.5 million years ago—over the last two decades.

Imagine seven atomic bombs going off every second for a year—that’s the heat our oceans absorbed. Covering 71% of Earth, they fuel storms, hurricanes, and extreme weather. See how oceans are taking the heat for climate change—literally. 🔗 https://t.co/xSCfdLJeQ2

In the early 1960s, a team of archaeologists faced ridicule when they tried to excavate a 7th-century Byzantine vessel. Developing pioneering techniques, they revolutionized underwater archaeology and launched it as a legitimate field of science:

Sometimes the best families are the ones you make for yourself—this elephant has formed a herd of her own with a group of buffalo who have learned to understand her. 🐘 #SecretsOfTheElephants is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.

These little meerkats tumble, pounce, and spar their way to survival skills. #Underdogs is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.

The search for Cleopatra's tomb isn't just a matter of geography—it requires an understanding of who she was. #CleopatrasFinalSecret is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.

A waterfall spills from a cliff-top forest into the Ataro River near Wayalayeng village in Guyana.

Seventy million years ago, a megaraptor died, probably while in the middle of chowing down on a Cretaceous crocodile’s arm. The fossil evidence of this last meal is a gift to paleontologists, who rarely find such clear indications of dinosaur behavior. 🔗

The Hawaiian honeycreeper digs for bugs, using its lower beak like a pickaxe to chip into wood. #AmericasNationalParks is now streaming on @Disneyplus and @hulu.

What if the entire universe is actually in a black hole? That's what some cosmologists have theorized, noting similarities between the mechanics of our expanding cosmos and the physics of a black hole. But what would it mean if this were true? 🔗

Incoming cuteness alert—did you know baby octopuses can change color and texture from the moment they’re born? #SecretsOfTheOctopus is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.

Alien life may not need sunlight to survive. According to a new study, microbes could instead harness galactic cosmic rays—the high-energy particles born from exploding stars—as a food source. 🔗

Spinner dolphins—like this group photographed off Isla del Caño, Costa Rica—live in large pods, containing anywhere from a few dozen to a thousand or more members.

Long before lab-grown alternatives, chefs and home cooks used ingredients like jackfruit and mushrooms to create dishes that mimic the texture of meat. But why do some plants and fungi naturally have that satisfying, chewy bite? Here's the science behind it. 🔗

As we honor Jane Goodall's legacy, we revisit her iconic 1963 National Geographic article about the chimpanzees of Gombe Stream Game Reserve and how months of patience allowed her to study them in a way once thought impossible. 🔗

In 1960, Dr. Jane Goodall’s early fieldwork observing chimpanzees at Gombe Stream Game Reserve, in Tanganyika (now Tanzania), unveiled groundbreaking research of shared behaviors between humans and apes. The Jane Goodall Institute announced on October 1, 2025, that Jane Goodall

Goodall's groundbreaking work studying humans’ closest relatives helped people understand that animals are sentient and intelligent. Read more about her legacy and work with the National Geographic Society:

Primatologist, conservationist, animal advocate, educator, and National Geographic Explorer Jane Goodall has died at age 91. Goodall’s decades of research into the lives of wild chimpanzees transformed our understanding of these intelligent apes. https://t.co/i3qzfDIAzg