A treasure trove of fossils from China shows that the Cambrian explosion may have been less explosive than scientists once ...

A new species of ancient primate challenges what we think we know about where human ancestors diverged from monkeys.

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An alien-like Mola mola surprised surfers as it surfaced along the San Diego coastline, ultimately dying and washing ashore. “A rare Mola mola (ocean sunfish) washed up on our shore at Cardiff State ...

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 ...

As movies that diagnose the modern condition go, you can't do much better than Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia. Lanthimos has always been cold and caustic, proffering oddball metaphors for the absurd state ...

What do Xenomorph eggs feel like? According to the special effects experts who designed them for Alien: Earth, the answer is warm and sticky. Second Skin Studio worked directly with Wētā Workshop and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet. Alien: Earth is currently the highest rated Alien ...

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 ...

Spoilers follow for Alien: Earth through Episode 7. Travis? Taylor? Pfft. America has a new sweetheart, and her name is… Well, she has a couple of names, from Trypanorhyncha Ocellus, to T. Ocellus, to ...