At first glance, it looks like something straight out of a superhero movie. The bootlace worm resembles the famous Venom ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...

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Frogs are often perceived as basic green or brown amphibians, but some of these pond dwellers look like they hopped right out of a science-fiction movie. They feature neon colors, transparent bodies, ...

A rare visitor from another star system prompted SETI to hunt for alien technology, but the mysterious object appears to be a ...

God and aliens are having a moment. But what do Christianity and other faiths really teach about ETs?

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Gainesville, Florida indie developer Lowe Bros. Studios this week revealed MonCraft 199X, a creature-collecting survival sandbox set in a world where the Y2K bug actually ended civilization — and ...

Residing in South America, the giant armadillo has a third, sickle-shaped claw that can be up to 20cm long. That claw comes ...

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that ...

The deep ocean is home to one of the strangest phenomena on Earth: bioluminescence. Scientists estimate that more than 75% of ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself ...