Zoraptera, also known as angel insects or ground lice, are tiny termite-like insects generally found underneath bark or in ...

Scotland’s island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep ...

Animals with larger brains produce fewer, larger offspring, explaining why birds evolved bigger eggs than the largest dinosaurs.

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

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 ...

Movies like Arrival and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind feature the best and most powerful endings in the history of ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

Fossils unearthed in Ethiopia are reshaping our view of human evolution. Instead of a straight march from ape-like ancestors to modern humans, researchers now see a tangled, branching tree with ...

Invertebrates make up the vast majority of animal life on Earth, yet many of them seem more alien than familiar. Unlike ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.