The X-Files had a long alien conspiracy theory mythology, but some of its best episodes were Monster of the Week.

But New Zealand is home to an amazing version of glow worms – the Arachnocampa luminosa – and they are responsible for one of the most stunning natural spectacles in the world. The common glow worm, ...

Hampden is the perfect neighborhood for a shop as strange as Bazaar. This area has always had a reputation for embracing the unconventional and celebrating individuality. The streets are full of ...

Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know ...

"What in tarnation is that?" ...

Some insects look more like aliens than they do insects. One example is a grasshopper that is able to survive by not looking ...

But the real truth is that alien life on other planets could be even stranger than floating balloons or amorphous organisms ...

You might be used to shrimp being small, even if it's jumbo shrimp, but mantis shrimp is more like the size of lobster. It's ...

When we imagine alien life we often picture something radically different from ourselves. But evolution tends to solve similar problems in similar ways, and intelligence may come with predictable ...

The combustible sedimentary rock, better known as coal, was not only crucial to the onset of advanced technology here on Earth, but it should also be key to the development of advanced E.T.s residing ...