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.

SAR11 bacteria dominate the world’s oceans by being incredibly efficient, shedding genes to survive in nutrient-poor waters.

With its vivid blue float and glowing, radiating tentacles, the blue button jelly looks more like a creature from science ...

From creatures that regrow limbs to animals that see electricity, nature’s true superheroes don’t wear capes—they evolve them ...

At first glance, it looks like an alien eye—a gorgeous blue iris around a carmel-colored pupil, thick eyelashes radiating out ...

Everything really is bigger — and stranger — in Texas. This year proved the Lone Star State is full of wild surprises after several Texans spotted some rare and unusual encounters with sea creatures ...

An alien-like creature 'from another planet' has washed up on a beach in the United Kingdom and been identified as a rarely seen sea creature. Georgina and Rob Pope were walking their dog, Nona, at ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

Among the many strange biological wonders Charles Darwin observed in his time, one haunted him above all. “‘The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder,” he admitted in a letter to an American ...

We’ve already made our opinion knownOpens in a new tab, but T.Ocellus, a.k.a. “the octopus eye,” especially when it’s inside a poor zombified sheep — is the scariest alien in all of Alien: Earth. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The extraterrestrial species living inside the sheep has an official designation as the T. Ocellus. So far, it’s torn out the eye ...