A tuatara clings to a rock near New Zealand's shore. Tuataras are nicknamed "living fossils," as their appearances haven't changed much since the Jurassic period.
PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANS LANTING, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A story in the July 2015 issue followed the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi throughout India. Here, two students pose in front of his portrait at the school he founded for Dalits, once known as Untouchables, in Ahmadabad, Gujarat.
PHOTOGRAPH BY RENA EFFENDI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
An artist paints the harbor of Cala Figuera on the Spanish island of Majorca. A May 1957 story documented the rise of visitors to the Balearic Islands.
PHOTOGRAPH BY FRANC AND JEAN SHOR, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
In Sardinia, Italy, women prepare culurgiones, pasta dough stuffed with potato, pecorino cheese, and mint. This picture appeared in a January 2020 story about how certain regional foods may contribute to long life.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREA FRAZZETTA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
As Salt Lake City prepared to host the 2002 Olympics, National Geographic published a profile of the area, which was in the midst of a population and development boom. Here, a girl plays on top of pumpkins at her family's farm in Draper, Utah, 20 miles south of Salt Lake City.
PHOTOGRAPH BY ROBB KENDRICK, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A subway platform in 1960s New York City sees a rush of commuters. In 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic changed commuting habits, the system provided a total of 1,697,787,002 rides.
PHOTOGRAPH BY DEAN CONGER, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Decked out in a cardboard crown and a curtain for a robe, an eight-year-old Nenets girl proclaims herself a "tundra princess." The Nenets are an Indigenous group of people in the Russian Arctic who herd reindeer on an 800-mile round-trip migration every year.
PHOTOGRAPH BY EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A group of giraffes runs across the Gara Plain in Zakouma National Park, Chad. The park was founded in the 1960s to protect the critically endangered Kordofan giraffe. Today it is estimated that only 2,000 Kordofan giraffes remain in the wild, with the majority living in Zakouma.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL NICHOLS, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
Petals from almond trees scatter on the ground around beehives, which are moved from orchard to orchard across the country to pollinate crops. The almond industry is so large that experts estimate 70 percent of commercially kept honeybees are used to pollinate almond trees.
PHOTOGRAPH BY MARIA STENZEL, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION
A hot-air balloon decorated as a jack-o'-lantern drifts over the mist-covered landscape of northeastern Tennessee. A story in the May 1986 issue documented an era of economic growth in the state.
PHOTOGRAPH BY KAREN KASMAUSKI, NAT GEO IMAGE COLLECTION