A jaguar, capybara, vulture, hyena and tortoise greet visitors in the courtyard of National Geographic’s new Museum of Exploration. They’re just a few of the life-size animal sculptures in the outdoor ...

Photographer Joel Sartore’s interest in animal species and extinction was first piqued as a child, when he saw an image of Martha, the last passenger pigeon, who died in 1914, in a book belonging to ...