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, ...

Thousands of alien species could invade the Arctic, warns a new study. Warmer temperatures and more tourists make it easier for non-native plants and animals to get a foothold in far northerly ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

More than 2,500 alien plant species could find suitable conditions in the Arctic, especially in northern Norway and Svalbard.

Some insects look more like aliens than they do insects. One example is a grasshopper that is able to survive by not looking like one at all. The Peruvian jumping stick has a unique appearance for a ...