A popular idea suggests a link between big brains and a rich social life, but octopuses don't fit the pattern, which suggests ...

Erik Irmer has been documenting the spread of invasive plant and animal species that disrupt native ecology across Europe. He focuses on humans’ interactions with these plants and animals. Aliens is ...

Funny dog Maymo is pranked by his owner with a gigantic blow-up alien. Watch this cute beagle's reaction when an alien ...

Funny dog Maymo play one of his favorite games—chasing around a laser beam. A hooded alien first approaches Maymo with a sword, which the cute dog tears apart in seconds...so the alien decides to grab ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

Whether it's helping rescue animals feel safe or watching a baby grow up to have babies of their own, there are special ...

Nature often outperforms imagination. While fantasy films rely on CGI and special effects, the real world quietly hosts ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...

Tribbles are trouble in the Star Trek universe because they're so hard to remove, much like these real-life animals that've ...

Insects are often seen as invaders due to high-profile species like the yellow-legged (Asian) hornet, the harlequin ladybird ...