Corrections and Clarifications
National Geographic magazine
May 2025
Who Gets to Dig for Dinosaurs
Page 115: The scholarly paper from the University of Lausanne was published in 2024 and described finds from 2018.
November 2024
AI: Welcome to a New Age of Discovery
Page 54: The article should have stated that Jupiter and Saturn can be viewed with common telescopes. Page 60: The correct size of the facility housing the El Capitan computer is 48,000 square feet.
August 2024
Bats: A Love Story, page 29
The location of Belfast was misstated. It is in Northern Ireland.
September 2023
Proof: A Call to Remember, page 13: The city listed at the top of the caption for Keiko Okinishi’s portrait is incorrect. It should be Nagasaki.
July 2023
Trailblazers, page 102: Country-wide microbead bans were first influenced by Imogen Napper’s microbead research, which began in 2014—five years prior to her work on Mt. Everest.
May 2023
Features, page 35: The slime mold species in the photograph is Physarum leucopus.
November 2022
A Pacific Rebirth, page 120: Two conversions were incorrect on this page. In Millennium Atoll in 2009 there were more than 29 giant clams per square yard. The average number of coral colonies are 43 million to 53 million coral colonies per square mile.
October 2022
Explore | Breakthroughs: Blue macaw back from the brink, page 22: The Spix's macaw was last seen in the wild more than 20 years ago and was declared extinct in 2019.
September 2022
Out of Sight, page 83: The image of the tardigrade was magnified 2,400 times.
National Geographic History
September/October 2023
Raising the Dead: Bog Bodies of Northern Europe, page 57: The photo caption and credit for the image of the Windeby I bog body is missing from the print version of the story. The photograph appears courtesy of the Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen.
July/August 2023
Battle of Gettysburg: Mapping the Fight, page 87: a heading incorrectly stated the date of Pickett's Charge as July 2, 1863. The correct date is July 3.
The Maya Collapse: A Mysterious End, page 66: the location of the Piedras Negras site was mistakenly identified as northeastern Mexico. The site is located in northeastern Guatemala.
National Geographic Kids magazine
August 2024
Baby Sharks!, page 14: The text in the "Shark School" section should read: Here, he feeds Mali a snail.
March 2024
Weird But True, page 4: The fact about Mercury incorrectly featured a image of Mars.
Awesome 8: Rock-Solid Sites, page 8: The Alien Invasion image shows Bryce Canyon National Park.
Stump Your Parents, page 34, question 10: The Swiss and Vatican flags are also not rectangular.
September 2023
Eye in the Sky, page 23: The Hubble image labeled Southern Ring Nebula actually shows the Ring Nebula.
February 2023
Destination Venus, page 20: The sun positions were swapped for Earth and Venus. Earth is the third closest and Venus is the second.
Special Issues
2024
Hidden Paris: Exploring the City’s Secret Stories
Pages 2-3: The missing credit for the photograph should be Richard Nowitz, National Geographic Image Collection. Page 14: The missing image credits should be Pierre Antoine, Musée Carnavalet (top); Denis Glikman, Inrap (bottom).
2022
Hidden London: Digging Through the City’s Buried Past
Page 27: Author Daniel Defoe lived during the Georgian era of British history, not the Victorian era.
Books
Pandora’s Lab
On page 17: The name of the Roman god of sleep is spelled incorrectly. It should be Somnus.
