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Some animals on Earth look so unusual that they appear almost alien. Their shapes, movements, and survival strategies challenge familiar ideas of what life should look like. Scientists study these ...

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 ...

Science Fiction often shows us aliens who look much like humans, and suggest this is a result of convergent evolution to useful traits. But is such convergence to the human form or mind likely with ...

A new study theorizes that evolution ticks at different speeds, especially when a big group of organisms first appears.

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From cosmic aliens to abstract deities, these are the most ancient and heroic entities the Marvel universe has to offer.

Erich von Däniken, who has died aged 90, was among the first writers to suggest that human civilisation, and even human ...

I/ATLAS fuels a global security row as the CIA issues a 'Glomar' response to records requests. Is the interstellar object a ...

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A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems.