Scotland's island wrens are quietly breaking the rules of evolution, growing in ways that have stunned researchers and raised a provocative question: are these birds becoming something else entirely?

Animals with larger brains produce fewer, larger offspring, explaining why birds evolved bigger eggs than the largest dinosaurs.

Blind Mexican cavefish became active in light while surface fish reacted to darkness, revealing how evolution rewired brains.

Life reconstruction of the Jurassic bird Zhengheornis buyu from the Zhenghe Fauna in Fujian province. [Photo provided to ...

The idea that octopuses might be aliens emerged from the theory of panspermia (Stelele 2018), according to which life on Earth is not entirely of terrestrial ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer ...

A new genus and species of four-winged pennaraptoran dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of northern China is adding another ...

Invertebrates make up the vast majority of animal life on Earth, yet many of them seem more alien than familiar. Unlike ...

If an alien intelligence were hiding somewhere on Earth, many scientists suspect it might look something like an octopus.Get ...

The United States government's recent release of hundreds of previously classified unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg ...

12 years is a long wait to play the sequel to one of your favourite games of all time. During that decade-plus stretch, I’ve re-played the original Alien: Isolation multiple times, analysed its ...