Fossils from some of the oldest-known animals on Earth, dating from 574 million years ago (Ediacaran period), suggest that cloning, not competition, dominated the Ediacaran seas, slowing evolution ...

Hollywood’s science fiction films, particularly alien movies, can be divided into those before and after director Steven ...

New findings, published in Nature, help answer the riddle of how vertebrates evolved the diverse array of brain cells that ...

Steven Spielberg's latest film "Disclosure Day" isn't "E.T." or "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." But it is thrilling, ...

Earth’s earliest animals may have held evolution back because they reproduced asexually, creating low-competition communities ...

The desolate, wind-swept desert of the Paracas Peninsula on the southern coast of Peru holds one of the most enduring mysteries of the ancient world. In 1928, the renowned Peruvian archaeologist Julio ...

What started off as a sci-fi horror turned into one of the best sci-fi comedies ever when it dropped 25 years ago. Being true ...

The out-of-Africa migration, in which ancient humans went on to inhabit every other continent except Antarctica, may not have ...

With their incredible intelligence, shape-shifting abilities, and strange anatomy, octopuses often seem almost otherworldly. But their origins are firmly rooted in Earth’s evolutionary history. Iran ...

In the shadowy depths of the ocean, one of Earth’s most enigmatic minds is at work. The octopus—with its eight arms, three hearts, and distributed nervous system—has long fascinated scientists and ...

Stromatolites, formed by microbes, represent some of the oldest known evidence of life on Earth (Image: Getty) Scientists have uncovered extraterrestrial material inside an Earth crater that they ...

In his latest posting spree on social media, President Donald Trump uploaded several images depicting himself blowing up several spacecraft and walking beside a muscular alien in handcuffs. The posts ...