The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

(390 million mi) from Earth, underneath the cold seas of Europa, a horrifying, and vastly intelligent creature lurks. Can our ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...

I've seen some gnarly shit. One morning in the third grade, a crush threw up her breakfast all over me. Cut to regurgitated milk and Eggo waffles soaked into my uniform. About a year later, a stapler ...

The creepiest new alien that the Weyland-Yutani ship the Maginot discovered was what we call “the octopus eye,” whose official name is the T. Ocellus. We already saw in the first few episodes that ...

Octopuses have a way of making familiar rules feel optional. They live on Earth but behave like visitors with a different instruction manual. Scientists study them for answers about intelligence and ...

Stockphoto, Julix/iStockphoto While most people are worried about artificial intelligence-driven robots, a University of ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

So far on Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley has introduced us to four new extraterrestrial species aside from the classic Xenomorph. But after episode four of Alien: Earth, we think the Xeno, designed by the ...

The so-called ticks are not the only extraterrestrial bugs appearing on Alien: Earth. We’ve also got a nest of flies, which seems to live inside a hornet’s nest from our own world. We don’t know much ...