Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

From "Independence Day" to "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", movies and TV shows are packed with advice for anyone aspiring ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of flatworm, the deepest free-living one ever recorded, in the Pacific Ocean's Kuril ...

Deep-sea explorers discovered tiny, jet-black spheres clinging to rocks nearly four miles beneath the Pacific Ocean. These ...

These forgotten sci-fi shows are practically flawless, including the game-changing space opera Babylon 5 and the underrated ...

A controversial Harvard University cosmologist who has suggested alien lifeforms could be sailing into the solar system disguised as meteors is leading the Trump administration’ ...

Earth has a dizzying diversity of insects, with beetles alone making up 25 percent of all named animal species. The new ...

Researchers have wondered whether Praearcturus gigas was a giant crustacean called an isopod or some other creature. A new analysis of museum specimens suggests that it was a scorpion that stretched m ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

While diving in the waters of Fiordland, off the coast of New Zealand’s South Island, researchers were amazed to discover an enormous black coral. The coral is thought to be among the largest ever ...

Kris Kneen’s Rite of Spring is a pulsing story that moves energetically across its terrain, delivering a sense of alien ...