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

Exoplanets like Earth have been discovered but not all Earth-like planets are equal when it comes to alien life.

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

A crowd-sourced search for alien intelligence called SETI@Home is in its final stages, analyzing 100 radio signals of ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from the Ediacaran period challenge what scientists thought was possible in sandstone. In the fossil record, creatures without hard shells or skeletons, such as ...

Those concerned that 3I/ATLAS' arrival to our solar system meant that some sort of alien invasion was imminent can breathe a ...

The platypus is one of evolution's lovable, oddball animals. The creature seems to defy well-understood rules of biology by ...

Mass Effect's Milky Way is home to many different ( bangable) alien species, from the bird-like turians to the jellyfish-like ...

For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

A new paper posits that advanced alien civilizations may communicate through subtle flashes, like fireflies do on Earth. The ...

Rex, the 3-foot-tall wallaby, was found safe, the New Jersey sanctuary said. The search for one missing wallaby in New Jersey has ended with a hop-py reunion, an animal sanctuary said. A 3-foot-tall ...

Everything really is bigger — and stranger — in Texas. This year proved the Lone Star State is full of wild surprises after several Texans spotted some rare and unusual encounters with sea creatures ...