Articles by Cara Giaimo

Long before Tinder, singles put themselves onscreen for love.

He's arguing that his slightly upturned mouth is a "neutral expression."

Meet the kākāpō—a nocturnal, flightless parrot who we are about to understand on an unprecedented level.

Now all of South Africa is trying to find him.

Would you consider adopting him?

There are only eleven musk oxen in the whole country, and none of them are anywhere near this guy.

Invented by a football-hating electrical engineer, eventually, horses got involved.

To be fair, it was their parents' idea.

A wooly mammoth graveyard contains piles of bones from two different sizes of mammoth.

Meet the Torso Computer Club.

The original was destroyed by the Islamic State in 2015.

He (or she) loves only gold!

How flat is it? And should we make it even flatter?

Happy birthday, Boston Light.

Dr. John Bumpass Calhoun spent the '60s and '70s playing god to thousands of rodents.

They're sleeping under the station windows.

It's the first feline guerilla action from the Citizens Advertising Takeover Service.

Wherefore art thou, Strawberry Passion Awareness?

Scientists discovered that this rare fish is still alive—without ever laying eyes on it.

Florida, man.

A deep dive into "phantom clowns" leads us to '80s Boston, "The Paddler," and Donald Trump.

No one knows, but here are some theories.

How do you keep a flamingo flock safe in a major storm?

Eric Drysdale's stereoscopic collection plunks you right down in the middle of the 1950s.