"Few medical researchers pay serious attention to itches even though everyone experiences them," says Goh Chee Leok, clinical professor of dermatology at the National Skin Centre in Singapore.

This story appears in the September 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine ... workers kill, pluck, and skin the birds by hand. Fashion designers prize ostrich leather as supple, durable ...

This story appears in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The millions of micrometer-wide fractures in elephants’ skin retain mud and water after mud baths, helping the ...