Tigers and monkeys and tapirs, oh my! Joel Sartore's latest book, "National Geographic Photo Ark: Babies," captures the ...

Instead, scientists often use the animal’s distinct calls—which sound like a crying newborn baby, the likely source of their name—to differentiate between closely related species.

A video has been circulating of a woman taking a baby wombat from its mother. Here’s what experts want us to know about the dangers of interfering with wildlife, even if it seems innocuous.

Females have one baby at a time, which at birth is smaller ... Many millions of these animals roam Australia, and considerable numbers are killed each year for their skins and meat, which is ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Yet fish populations around the world, and the animals that eat them, depend on just how many larval fish make it ...