Stem cells from cloned monkey embryos cause cautious optimism in scientists who say the advance may eventually lead to better human medical treatments.
Join National Geographic News on the trail with Megafishes project leader Zeb Hogan, as he tracks down—and helps save—the world's largest freshwater fish.
Nigersaurus—an elephant-size dinosaur with a featherweight skull and a mouth that worked like a lawn mower—suggests that long-necked plant-eaters browsed like cows.
Early beer makers discovered how to make a chocolate drink from cacao seedpods 3,000 years ago—about 500 years earlier than the beverage was known to exist, a new study says.
Microbes could survive reentry into Earth's atmosphere, a new experiment found. Said one scientist: "We cannot exclude the possibility that we are ... all Martians."
The commercial crocodile breeder in Australia behind the genetic mapping project says similar science has helped businesses dealing in cattle, sheep, and pigs.
Almost a century after a mysterious explosion flattened a huge swath of Siberian forest, scientists say they have found a crater made by the cosmic object that created the blast.
