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National Geographic has laid off all its staff writers, leaving the venerable, award-winning magazine to be pieced together by editors and freelancers.

The ocean’s most formidable cold-hearted killer, the long-extinct giant megalodon shark, may have been warm-blooded – which could have caused its disappearance more than three million years ago. 

BOSTON — Hundreds of great white sharks hunting seals close to shore along Cape Cod, and how local researchers are hoping to predict shark behavior, is the focus of a new National Geographic special for Sharkfest next week.

Disney Channel, Disney XD, Disney Junior on board alongside Nat Geo, as are ABC’s owned stations

A Florida man went diving in Jupiter Inlet and fed between six and 10 bull sharks from his HANDS — and he survived to tell the tale

Nat Geo's Sharkfest 2024 is back to take a bite out of summer. Here is everything you need to know about the full month of shark-themed programming.

The plant-eating, raptor-like dinosaur lived during a time of great transition around 99 million years ago and was named after the Roman god Janus.

Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger claims that the oldest burial site in the world, dating back to some 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, is in South Africa. He believes the primitive Homo naledi species buried their dead and carved symbols on tomb walls. The findings challenge the current understanding of human evolution.

Centuries-old events such as Weighing in the Mayor in High Wycombe and the Jack in the Green festival can be an eye-opener for many

Many centuries-old events, such as Weighing in the Mayor in High Wycombe, and the Jack in the Green festival, leave Brits baffled

Homo naledi, an extinct human relative with one-third the brain size of ours, buried and may have memorialized their dead, controversial research suggests.