About 500 million years ago, not a single creature had a skull. Over time, these bony plates evolved into the structural marvels that vertebrates—animals with spinal cords, aka you, me, and your pug, ...

A self-published 2022 paper by retired paleontologist Clifford Miles claimed eight Nazca mummies from Peru represented a new family, genus, and species, arguing their anatomy could not have evolved on ...

In recent years, a surprisingly large number of alien species have managed to flourish in Svalbard. In 2024, common meadow rue, Thalictrum flavum ,was identified for the first time in Svalbard, in ...

In space, you don’t just have xenomorphs to worry about anymore. “One of the things that you can never reproduce in an audience that has seen an Alien movie is the feeling you had the first time you ...

Introduction -- Form vs function : what is common across worlds? -- What are animals and what are aliens? -- Movement - scuttling and gliding across space -- Communication channels -- Intelligence ...