Explore 128 exotic pets with breed profiles, care guides, and expert advice to help you find the perfect companion.

Invasive reptiles may be quietly altering how plants regenerate, moving seeds across the Everglades and complicating efforts to restore balance.

Last year, Taylor Stanberry caught 60 Burmese pythons with her bares hands—a state record. But this self-taught hunter says she doesn't enjoy killing the snakes, she just knows it's a necessity.

The Key Largo woodrat has survived in the tropical hammocks of a narrow Florida island for thousands of years. It builds ...

A hyena is no easy target, with powerful jaws and a reputation for holding its own against lions and leopards, yet one ...

My guide, Thai American snake expert Christopher Shannon, caught it in the beam of his flashlight, the snake’s chartreuse ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Selfie of Naruto taken in June 2011. Photograph by David J. Slater If it weren’t for a cheeky monkey named Naruto, who, as ...

The cactus, a Selenicereus, which covers an oak tree in the circular driveway near the Botany building, has blooms that open once a year, for one night only. Selby botanists were able to predict the ...

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THR's executive editor of awards coverage makes the case for a wide variety of movie stars, auteurs, craftspeople, executives, documentarians and outside-the-box candidates like a talent agent, a film ...