Presented by @Rolex. Welcome to Africa 🌍 Africa Earth's Wild Home takes you deep into the heart of our wildest continent, bringing you closer to its animals, landscapes, and the people watching over it than ever before.

When 33 miners became trapped underground in northern Chile, the whole world watched as rescuers searched for ways to bring them back to safety. #ChileanMineRescue: Race Against Time is now streaming on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.

With wings spread and head held high, this Adélie penguin presents a dapper figure as it waddles through an Antarctic colony.

Just announced for @MetaVR_Official are two brand news ways to experience storytelling here at Industrial Light & Magic! “Disney Immersive Cinema by ILM” and “National Geographic: Beyond”. Learn more about the collaboration with @Lucasfilm, @MarvelStudios, and @NatGeo here: ilm.com/ilm-at-meta-connect-…

How do you travel faster than the speed of light? You have to take one of the universe's back doorways. Discover more about LOST IN SPACE: 5,000 Facts for Navigating the Universe: on.natgeo.com/TGJ7Py

You don't need thousands of dollars of camera equipment to photograph the night sky. With a smartphone and guidance from astrophotographer Sadeq Hayati, you can learn how to capture phenomena like the Milky Way, star trails, and the northern lights. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/4Abo1w

School looks a little different for loon chicks. During their first 12 weeks, they learn essential survival skills from their parents, including how to swim, dive, and forage. #InsideTheEnchantedWaterways is now streaming on @DisneyPlus.

August’s Photos of the Day encompassed bursts of color in Nebraska's sky, a flamboyance of flamingos, and seal pups taking their first dips in the ocean. Nat Geo’s photography department picked 23 classic images to highlight alongside the stories behind them. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/wQi6yb

Hollywood takes plenty of liberties with Ancient Rome—but gladiators really were sex symbols. While most looked nothing like the sculpted heroes portrayed on screen, multiple sources reveal why Roman society found these fighters so irresistible. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/LXxpzT

A new species of cat has been identified for the first time in a century—and experts think that there may be even more to discover around the world: on.natgeo.com/n5nxra

New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj

During WWI, journalist Harriet Chalmers Adams traveled to wartime Lorraine, documenting a landscape where beautiful villages and the scars of war existed side by side. Her 1917 account offers a glimpse of France during this turbulent time. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/RDqS9v

Presented by @Rolex. Get ready to explore the heart of our wildest continent like never before. 🌍 Through its partnership with the National Geographic Society and as part of its Perpetual Planet Initiative, #Rolex supports expeditions exploring and protecting remarkable places around the world, a selection of which are featured in Africa Earth’s Wild Home. #PerpetualPlanet #AfricaEarthsWildHome premieres Friday, October 2 at 8/7c on National Geographic. Streaming next day on @DisneyPlus and @hulu.

Off Pebbles Beach in Barbados, photographer Ana Elisa Sotelo joined horse handler Glenfield Clarke on a morning swim with a racehorse named Zorah. Sotelo says she was mesmerized by the way the horse and groom seemed to “become kind of like one creature.”

Millions of years from now, the traces of our lives will be buried in Earth’s layers. Plastics, silicon chips, concrete, and other technofossils may offer future archaeologists a record of how we lived, consumed, and reshaped the planet. 🔗 on.natgeo.com/yGq1qy