This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. Walter looks comfortable. Dead for 50 years, the giant Pacific octopus is resting in a ten-gallon tank of ethanol ...

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This story appears in the September 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. "September 12—Tuesday ... would require a month to heal. Racing back to his base, Framheim (named after his ...

This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. It’s a warm winter ... had recently spooked another cougar off his back porch. “We’ve got a booming deer ...

This story appears in the July 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. If you noticed them at all, they’d look like nothing more than tiny, windblown seeds floating amid the rushes at the ...

This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. It was tempting to think we were going back in time, slipping the bonds of the modern world for tribal life in one of ...

This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. The khan dreams of ... everything the khan owns needs to be tied to the back of a yak. This includes a dozen teapots ...