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, ...

Australia is renowned for its native flora and fauna, but did you know the continent is also home to about 3,000 "alien" species of animals, plants, fungi and microbes? Invasive alien species become ...

The cuttlefish may be one of the strangest animals in the ocean. With specialized skin cells called chromatophores, it can change color and pattern almost instantly, blending into its surroundings or ...

"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 ...

Andy Sheppard, as a chief research scientist with CSIRO, receives funding from the Australian federal government. This included funding to participate in the IPBES Assessment process as a coordinating ...

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A respected Polish scientific institute has classified domestic cats as an “invasive alien species,” citing the damage they cause to birds and other wildlife. Some cat lovers ...

The idea of isolation is prevalent through the Alien series. In space, no one can hear you scream, often because there’s nobody left to hear you scream. That theme also extends to the idea of what ...