A new deep-sea species now carries a scientific name chosen by the internet, and researchers say the crowdsourced approach ...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A marine creature that resembles the alien E.T. has been found growing in a prehistoric area of eastern Pacific seafloor rock. The “E.T. sponge” has been classified as a new species ...
The Rock Pool Project in Plymouth says the non-native sea hare looks "alien-like".
Charley Taviner, five, was following a crab when he found what he thought was a huge lump of seaweed. But it turned out to be Aplysia depilans - or the "Mediterranean sea hare" - a species rarely seen ...
Robert May, a famed ecologist, posed a hypothetical question to the scientific community 15 years ago - if an alien spaceship landed on Earth, one of the first questions they would likely ask would be ...
Fifteen years ago, celebrated Australian ecologist Robert May posed a fantastical question to the scientific community. “If some alien version of the Starship Enterprise visited Earth, what might be ...
Star Trek has introduced a host of different alien species over the decades, but the past 17 years have seen four of the most famous decimated.