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 ...

Climate change and extreme weather are impacting animal migration patterns, with many species moving north and to higher ground. There are different kinds of migration. Daily animal migrations, also ...

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 ...

Bird banding has long been a valuable tool for studying the movements of migratory birds, providing essential insights into ...

Such is the case with the likelihood of changes in the distribution of poisonous animals, such as snakes ... impact is already being made today in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

These are the animals with the longest migrations. In the Yukon, Porcupine caribou travel 3,000 miles. This is the longest migration by land of any mammal on Earth. Monarch butterflies fly about ...