Today, oceans host a large variety of fast, resilient marine predators, including tunas, mackerels and various other fish species. Many of these fish belong to a lineage known as Scombridae, whose ...

Zoraptera, an order of insects that includes angel insects, has defied accurate taxonomic description since 1913.

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A remarkable story is playing out across the Western United States – one that stands as a testament to human willpower and ...

The Predator is an extra-terrestrial species, also known as Yautja, that is highly aggressive, invasive, and considered to be the apex predator, as the name suggests. The franchise is extremely ...

A team of scientists from Switzerland and France propose that animals learned to communicate at this rhythm hundreds of ...

Unlike other endangered species whose survival depends on habitat preservation or broader landscape-level risk reduction, the ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

The first tarot cards, from fifteenth-century Italy, were, essentially, playing cards. Known as carte de trionfi, the cards ...

Alien director Ridley Scott eventually returned to the franchise, but couldn't complete his ambitious plans. Here's what his unmade movie could have been about.

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 ...

By tracking neural crest cells in catshark embryos, researchers discovered that the molecular toolkit behind face-building is surprisingly conserved across jawed vertebrates. The real differences ...