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 ...

The “Great Elephant Migration,” one of the largest outdoor art installations to hit the streets of New York, has placed ...

This arctic flyer, despite its unassuming size, migrates longer than any other animal, spending its life at the two poles of ...

Twice a year, across the globe, billions of birds take flight on (Earth-bound) migrations. From hundreds to thousands of ...

This story appears in the November 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. Animal migration is a phenomenon far grander and more patterned than animal movement. It represents collective travel ...

Tracking migrating individuals over large distances is one of the challenges in studying animal migration. Using radar has allowed researchers to examine migration altitude, speed, and wing beat ...

South Sudan is trying to protect the largest land mammal migration in history by partnering with the nonprofit organization African Parks to safeguard the migratory species that rely on the ...

But now, a new study provides a window into the lives of these animals like never before. Using more than half a million records collected from five migration sites in the Northeast and Great ...

KOCHI: Shelju Subramaniam, 40, whose grandfather migrated from Adimali to Kanthalloor, considered the vegetable bowl of ...

Rather, the energetics of migration is far more complex and interesting than theory predicted." Animal migration is a spectacular example of how animals adapt to changing seasons. Yet the ultimate ...

Humpback whales have been making a conservation comeback – but warming seas are putting their recovery at risk. The destruction a fire brings can be crucial for certain species to thrive. Meet ...