These incredible animals have broken records for the longest migration journey among mammals. Researchers have discovered ...

8 Things You Never Knew About Dragonflies Africa's wildebeest herds travel annually by the millions in search of greener pastures; this is perhaps the most visible animal migration. Known as the ...

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 ...

Now, a new study from the University of Bristol and China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) claims that global warming caused ...

After observing thousands of records over decades, researchers found that birds of a feather may actually stick together ...

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 GIUM atlas, featuring data like plains zebra tracking, highlights ongoing human impacts on ungulate migrations. These ...

Unfortunately, animals go extinct every single year, often due to human activity. As we move towards a more sustainable ...

By outfitting blackbirds with heart-rate monitors, scientists debunked a long-held assumption about the benefits of spending ...

Once blackbirds reached their warmer wintering areas, they did not seem to reduce their overall daily energy expenditure as ...

Millions of birds migrate every year to escape winter, but spending time in a warmer climate does not save them energy, according to new research. Using miniaturized loggers implanted in wild ...

The birds Watts studies do nomadic migration. Their migratory movements look more like wandering as they seek out food ...