Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.
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, ...
When most people imagine a bird, they picture an animal with feathers, wings, and a beak perched on a tree branch. However, ...
As I found while working on my own novel, writing about aliens can be strangely helpful in this pursuit. Just as astronomers ...
Alien: Earth showrunner Noah Hawley clearly didn’t think the franchise was doing enough with the implications of its title. Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) imagined the kind of nightmare lifeforms that ...