From the Greys to the Nordics, these aliens appear frequently across abduction stories and science fiction tales.

Some creative calculations using bug traps, epidemiology and trees suggest there are some 20 million unique insect species on ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

The fossil belongs to the Titanosaur, the largest creature to ever walk the earth. It was unearthed in 1985 but has been ...

A fossil of the creature provides the first evidence that microraptors lived in what is now northwestern China. Its discovery ...

Sea stars can produce eggs for up to 200 years. Their surprisingly human-like ovaries may offer clues about fertility and reproductive aging.

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

Palaeontologist Steve Brusatte discusses India's potential as a dinosaur hotspot and the importance of young scientists in ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

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Islands are already famous for strange wildlife, but their cave systems take isolation to another level. Cut off from sunlight, predators, and sometimes even the open ocean, these underground ...