2024: The Pictures of the Year

National Geographic's enterprising photographers have helped readers explore and learn about our beautiful world through their images for more than a century. Here is their best work from the past year.

Behind the scenes for the 2024 Pictures of the Year

For our photographers, it's all in a day's work: Monkeys dismantling camera traps, parrots shrieking like house alarms, and photobombing bats.

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