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When we imagine alien life, we picture monsters, insects, or tentacles—but what if the most realistic aliens are human-like? Evolution tends to solve the same problems with similar designs, and ...

Language and radio signals may not matter to aliens. Instead, they might be using patterns to leave a biological fingerprint.

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New research shows invasive species are reducing insect populations worldwide and weakening ecosystems people rely on.

The spiny leaf insect mother not only abandons her eggs, she's also figured out how to trick someone else into protecting and ...

Earth is home to creatures so strange, beautiful, and bizarre that it’s easy to forget we share the planet with them. These ...

An infographic showing the average declines in abundance of key terrestrial insect groups due to invasive alien species. The extent of declines varies across species and regions.

Invasive animals outcompete or eat insects while invasive vegetation replaces native plants that insects feed upon. The study ...