Some "Star Trek" aliens measure life in centuries or even millennia. Meet the remarkably long-lived species scattered across the franchise's history.

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, ...

I recently read a fascinating book by Cambridge University zoologist Dr. Arik Kershenbaum called The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens—and Ourselves. I totally ...

The Xenomorphs are arguably the greatest movie monsters of all time; a petrifying bundle of invasive parasites, weaponized jaws, and dangerously acidic blood. When director Ridley Scott teamed up with ...

Invasive alien species are driving human displacement, according to a new research paper published this month in Frontiers.

Introduction: Nonnative species in the world / David Pimentel -- The impacts of alien plants in Australia / Richard H. Groves -- Environmental and economic costs of invertebrate invasions in Australia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A siphonophore—a colonial marine invertebrate related to the venomous stinging Portuguese Man-o-war—is scanned using Deep Particle ...

"Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of ...