A reptile caretaker lifts an unusual South American turtle toward the camera, revealing a shell covered in ridges, a flattened head, and an exceptionally wide mouth. Its strange appearance gives the ...

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What would aliens actually look like? While simple life forms like bacteria may be common in the universe, complex ...

Close-up of Pseudoproscopia latirostris, a unique grasshopper species with an elongated head. Native to South America, it uses its distinctive shape as camouflage in ...

For generations, science fiction has imagined what life might look like on other worlds. These aliens are fictional, sure, but some of them are informed by real evolutionary processes on Earth. That’s ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life. Tardigrades—a type of invertebrate ...