Wild Chronicles Digital Shorts

Mountain chickens aren't chickens at all, but rather critically endangered frogs on the edge of extinction. One of the largest frogs in the world, they are considered a delicacy on the Caribbean island of Montserrat. But now, habitat destruction, ...

Along Canada’s Atlantic coast researchers use a high-tech robot, ROPOS, to probe the waters of the Atlantic Ocean for new species. Over two-thirds of Earth is covered by ocean, yet scientists only know a small percentage of the creatures that lie ...

Wild Chronicles host Boyd Matson travels to Botswana’s Okavango Delta to check on the largest population of elephants in Africa. Benefiting in part from the government’s decision to set aside more than 35 percent of the country as protected areas, ...

Wild Chronicles host Boyd Matson travels to Botswana’s Okavango Delta to check on the largest population of elephants in Africa. Benefiting in part from the government’s decision to set aside more than 35 percent of the country as protected areas, ...

Collaborating with National Geographic magazine and NPR for this Climate Connections report, Wild Chronicles examines the fate of Alaska’s guillemots. As global warming tears apart their icy home, these cold-loving Arctic seabirds struggle to find food ...

Collaborating with National Geographic magazine and NPR for this Climate Connections report, Wild Chronicles examines the fate of Alaska’s guillemots. As global warming tears apart their icy home, these cold-loving Arctic seabirds struggle to find food ...

National Geographic Emerging Explorer Mark Lynas presents an impressive and cautionary visual display of what global warming could do to our world if temperatures rise just six degrees Celsius. Extreme weather events, dying species and disappearing ...

National Geographic Emerging Explorer Mark Lynas presents an impressive and cautionary visual display of what global warming could do to our world if temperatures rise just six degrees Celsius. Extreme weather events, dying species and disappearing ...

In Senegal, the recent discovery of a group of woodland chimps sharpening sticks and using them like spears to hunt is rocking the primatology world. First reported by National Geographic Emerging Explorer Jill Pruetz, these savanna dwelling chimps, ...

In Senegal, the recent discovery of a group of woodland chimps sharpening sticks and using them like spears to hunt is rocking the primatology world. First reported by National Geographic Emerging Explorer Jill Pruetz, these savanna dwelling chimps, ...

For many African boys, becoming a man is part of a very special, and in some cases painful, rite of passage. Wild Chronicles gains inside access to the manhood ceremony of Kenya’s Samburu tribe, a rarely seen ritual that happens about once every 14 ...

For many African boys, becoming a man is part of a very special, and in some cases painful, rite of passage. Wild Chronicles gains inside access to the manhood ceremony of Kenya’s Samburu tribe, a rarely seen ritual that happens about once every 14 ...

Seen as a valuable commodity in the logging and tourist industries of Thailand, Asian elephants are often bought and sold by traders and then subjected to brutal training methods. The demand for young calves has led to poaching from the tiny wild ...

Seen as a valuable commodity in the logging and tourist industries of Thailand, Asian elephants are often bought and sold by traders and then subjected to brutal training methods. The demand for young calves has led to poaching from the tiny wild ...

Canada’s boreal forest, one of the largest intact forests on Earth, is the nesting ground for nearly 300 different species of birds, but the health of the forest is under threat. With only eight percent of the boreal designated as protected land, Wild ...

Canada’s boreal forest, one of the largest intact forests on Earth, is the nesting ground for nearly 300 different species of birds, but the health of the forest is under threat. With only eight percent of the boreal designated as protected land, Wild ...

When it comes to the majestic bluefin tuna, something smells a bit fishy. Once a behemoth of the sea, today bluefins appear to be shrinking – and it may be because of over-fishing. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle teams with ...

When it comes to the majestic bluefin tuna, something smells a bit fishy. Once a behemoth of the sea, today bluefins appear to be shrinking – and it may be because of over-fishing. National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Sylvia Earle teams with ...

For National Geographic photographer Nick Nichols, sometimes the toughest part of the job isn’t getting the perfect shot. Surviving the environment he is photographing can prove the ultimate challenge. Wild Chronicles follows Nichols into the Congo’s ...