As the son of archaeologists, National Geographic Explorer David Stuart spent his childhood wandering ancient Maya ruins—and helped shape what we know about the civilization today.

The new National Geographic series Pole to Pole ventures deep into the Amazon in search of creatures whose venom may yield new life-saving drugs. In episode 2 of Pole to Pole, Will Smith captures a ...

An intrepid scientist and her team were the first to venture into the Wulff Land caves—and they found surprising evidence of Greenland’s prehistoric past. Paleoclimatologist Gina Moseley led a team of ...

Cave art on Mona Island (All images by and courtesy Jago Cooper and Alice Samson) In the subterranean network of caves on Mona Island, 41 miles west of Puerto Rico, archaeologists have discovered a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Handprints on cave walls in a largely unexplored area of Indonesia may be the oldest rock art studied so far, dating back to at least 67,800 years ago. The tan-colored prints analyzed ...