A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...

Earth plants could thrive under the light of an alien sun, according to a recent experiment. A team of astrobiologists planted garden cress seeds and cultured dishes of photosynthetic bacteria under ...

A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

More than 2,500 plant species have the potential to invade the Arctic at the expense of the species that belong there. Norway is one of the areas that is particularly at risk. Species that are not ...

The team ends up inside a hive rigged for nuclear meltdown and is stranded on the planet. The team splits up, with Ripley setting the planet to blow up and Newt trying to save a little girl inside a ...

Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity. Researchers first spotted the ...

The Alien movie franchise has become iconic for its sci-fi-horror imagery – built around its official “mascot,” the Xenomorph. The black-skinned, eyeless, and serpentine-like creatures have inspired ...

Susana Clusella-Trullas receives funding from National Research Foundation, South Africa. Raquel A Garcia receives funding from the Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology (CIB). Most people would ...

But the corpse flower isn't Beccari's only odd find. In 1866, while exploring a wet, heavily forested, mountainous region in Sarawak, Borneo bordering present-day Kubah National Park, he stumbled upon ...

Alanna Rebelo receives funding from the South African Water Research Commission. This work was funded by the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DANIDA) as part of the SEBEI (Socio-Economic Benefits ...