New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution ...

When we imagine alien life we often picture something radically different from ourselves. But evolution tends to solve ...

Scientists found a 307 million-year-old fossil, Tyrannoroter heberti, revealing one of the earliest known land vertebrates ...

As audiences await the release of Tu Yaa Main, take a look at how far Bollywood has come in experimenting with creatures on screen.

Science fiction often shows aliens with human features like eyes, limbs, and faces. But science has a reason for questioning this idea. Through convergent evolution, similar environments and physical ...

In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Many video games are full of alien horrors, but these are the best games that let players turn the tables and become the terror from outer space. When you purchase ...

A singular eyeball attached to slimy tentacles, the organism aggressively implants itself in a human or animal’s eye socket. It acts as a parasite by controlling its host’s actions, turning them into ...

Is it the invasion of the genome snatchers? Just in case the idea of aliens walking around in human skin suits wasn’t frightening enough. An outlandish study asserts that aliens might have abducted us ...

A developer recently came out and stated that Alien: Isolation‘s famously long 20-hour runtime was actually an unexpected outcome. In an interview with the FRVR podcast, the game’s writer, Dion Lay, ...

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The FX series “Alien: Earth” premiered last month, and fans are already hoping for another installment. “Alien: Earth” hasn’t been renewed for season 2 yet, but the show’s creator, Noah Hawley, thinks ...