A baby capybara has arrived, drawing attention for its size, behavior, and unexpected charm. Still in its earliest days, the young animal is being closely monitored as it adjusts to its new ...

Scroll through wildlife photos from Brazil and you will spot an odd-looking “peace treaty” on the riverbank. A capybara naps while a yacare caiman sits nearby, and nobody seems worried. So what is ...

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There’s no bigger rodent in the world than capybaras. You can now touch, pet, and feed them in a brand new Orlando theme park exhibit. Danielle Lucas is the animal care director at Gatorland. She is ...

George, a capybara with an unusual past, had just one wish: to nap with the dogs. At WildSide Exotic Rescue in the West of England, Lindsay McKenna spent a long time trying to find the right place for ...

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The English language is full of words that seem overstuffed with unnecessary letters, feel like they should be spelled a different way, or just don't make sense. Here are some of our favorites, ...

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 edge of ...

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