Searching for alien languages sheds light on how much human languages have in common—with each other and even with animal ...

A remarkable fossil discovery in southwest China is rewriting the story of how complex animal life began, showing that many key animal groups appeared millions of years earlier than scientists once ...

For a long time, it was thought that this [technique] required telescopes in space,” says John Mather, the Nobel ...

Nautilus and Allonautilus cephalopods and their extinct ancestors have been drifting through the mesophotic zone of the ocean ...

By COREY WILLIAMS For generations, human beings have wondered: What would alien life from another planet be like? But we ...

Some animals are so unusual that they barely look real, and transparent creatures are among the strangest of them all. These ...

I teach a class at Bard College and Columbia University called “Imagining Nonhuman Consciousness.” We mostly read about ...

But the Freakybuttrue Peculiarium and Museum in Portland, Oregon is completely real, completely legal, and completely unlike ...

Three years later, no one has been charged. No suspect has been named. And the case remains open. "At this time, no ...

A Space Odyssey hit screens. Read SFX legend Douglas Trumbull on the movie's original "crap script" and 20-foot-tall green ...

With a new version of The X-Files in the works, Ryan Coogler is working on reviving another beloved property of the 1990s.

Usually sighted around Halloween, the octopus-like residents of Rigel 7 (e.g Kang and Kodos) have five tentacles (which they ...