Animal migration has fascinated humans for millennia. And for good reason: Some of the most astonishing feats of endurance are performed by long-distance migrants, such as the nine-day non-stop flight ...

For generations, the movement of animals across Africa on seasonal migrations has been one of the best-known natural phenomena. Each year, thousands of animals move across the landscape, following the ...

A white stork flies in Germany, where researchers tracked the birds’ migrations and concluded that they incrementally straighten their migration routes to find more direct ways to move between ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Field biologists tend to be a patient lot, often resigned to long days and weeks in ...

Animals in any environment have many essentials for survival. Two are obvious: food and water. Many don’t consider other essentials that are very much like the needs humans have. Those include cover ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At a time when mankind’s encroachment on habitats is increasingly leading species to extinction, scientists have discovered a mass migration of animals in Africa that reaches ...

A stork flying through the sky on a cloudless day. Storks are one of the many species of birds that migrate during certain months of the year. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Welcome to the first column of ...

NEW YORK -- From Christopher Columbus to Marco Polo, human explorers throughout history have traveled far distances. But some of the world's greatest explorers are in the animal kingdom. NatGeo's new ...

East Africa’s ‘Great Migration’ is generally estimated to involve as many as 1.3 million wildebeest. But in reality, fewer than 600,000 of the animals might move across the Serengeti-Mara landscape ...