For most predators, a tightly packed shoal of anchovies that moves like a single superorganism is hard to hunt. Dusky dolphins have a different approach. Their acrobatic moves help split the shoal into smaller groups before feeding.
#WildChile is now streaming on @DisneyPlus
Dolly Parton passed away today at the age of 80. Parton's career spanned decades, but Nat Geo photographer Jodi Cobb captured her in her first decade of stardom for our May 1978 feature on Nashville鈥檚 vibrant culture. Here are some of those images: on.natgeo.com/BubLNc
In 1954, Americans sent 54 billion items of mail鈥攎ore than was sent by the rest of the world combined. National Geographic traveled to post offices across the United States to see how they connected the country in this archival feature from July, 1954. 馃敆
Astronomers have found a Jupiter-sized object orbiting a brown dwarf, but aren鈥檛 sure how to classify it. That uncertainty persists 20 years after the International Astronomical Union defined what counts as a planet and reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet.
