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 January 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Lots of people are ... observers bravely reflected our world back at us. Nasreen Sheikh lives with her parents and ...

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 March 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. The path leads up a hill, across a fast-moving stream, back across the stream, and then past the carcass of a sheep.

This story appears in the September 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. For sheer breadth ... noted as far back as Aristotle: color-changing skin. It’s a popular myth that chameleons ...

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 ...

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