Login
This Squid Is Playing Peekaboo at the Bottom of the Ocean
12 December 2025 at 05:02
Perhaps it was hiding from predators. Or trying to catch food. Then again, maybe it just wanted to be left alone.
Normal view
Received yesterday — 12 December 2025
Received before yesterday
A Hot Plant’s Irresistible Signal Makes Beetles Pollinate It
11 December 2025 at 16:43
Ancient plants called cycads say “come hither” in infrared.
Killer Whales Find an ‘Unlikely Friend’ in Dolphins
11 December 2025 at 11:47
Off the coast of British Columbia, dolphins lead killer whales to salmon and earn their share of lunch, a new study reveals.
Utah Tries Relocating Beavers to Save Them, and Remake the Landscape
9 December 2025 at 21:33
Their dams cause floods, and that gets them in trouble with humans. But in the right place, more water can be a big help.
© Kim Raff for The New York Times
Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Who Studied, and Protected, Elephants, Dies at 83
9 December 2025 at 14:05
Born into an aristocratic British family, he turned his empathy and knowledge of the world’s largest land mammals to the cause of saving them from poachers.
When a Murder Hornet Becomes a Tasty Meal
4 December 2025 at 00:01
A researcher found that a Japanese pond frog is impervious to the stings of the northern giant hornet, even when it goes down the hatch.
It’s No Dodo, But This Newly Discovered Bird Could Share the Same Fate
3 December 2025 at 10:27
The slaty-masked tinamou, recently discovered in Brazil, is utterly unafraid of people. That could be its undoing, ornithologists worry.
To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder
27 November 2025 at 05:01
In a small study, pet cats greeted male owners with more vocalizations than they did female caregivers.
© Aleksei Poprotskii/Alamy
In Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Locals Fight for ‘The Right to Night’
25 November 2025 at 11:01
Industrialization in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula has some residents pushing for protection of the region’s celestial splendor.
The night sky above Eagle Harbor, a village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula along the shoreline of Lake Superior.
© Emily Elconin for The New York Times
Kissing Has Existed for at Least 16 Million Years, Scientists Say
19 November 2025 at 18:33
And humans are far from the only species locking lips.
Orangutans were one of the species whom the scientists focused on in their study.
© Roland Weihrauch/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
Video Reveals How Far Wolves Will Go to Steal a Meal
17 November 2025 at 12:00
After a wolf dragged a crab trap out of water to get a snack, some scientists said the behavior revealed their ability to use tools.
Parasitic Queen: Now She’s Stealing an Ant Fief
17 November 2025 at 11:00
Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on their own mother.
Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before
11 November 2025 at 12:33
A pitch-black cave in the Balkans is home to what researchers say is a singular work of cooperation by two usually-hostile species of spider.
© Marek Audy, via Reuters
In Mexico, Killer Whales Take Down Great White Sharks
3 November 2025 at 12:29
A pod of orcas in the Gulf of California has repeatedly hunted juvenile white sharks to feast on their livers.
