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Here’s something you didn’t know. Clark’s nutcracker, a clever North American bird, can store over 33,000 pine seeds in 2500 ...

Comic-Con is coming! It can be overwhelming, even for someone who has been going for more than a half-century. To help you navigate the hundreds of hours of programming, I've organized my ...

At the Trinity library, she meets the new generation of budding actors, who perform works by Beckett, Synge and William ...

The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes in evolutionary history. Working out how this massive transformation took ...

Unlike other endangered species whose survival depends on habitat preservation or broader landscape-level risk reduction, the conservation of the kākāpō revolves around individual birds. This is one ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

With the release of Disclosure Day, Steven Spielberg’s new film about aliens, a question as old as science fiction itself resurfaces: if aliens were to arrive on Earth, would they come to conquer us, ...

It didn’t take long for stories about extraterrestrials to reach our cinemas. George Méliès “A Trip to the Moon” introduced weird, easily explodable aliens called Selenites that capture the first ...

“Disclosure” has become a cult word. It shouldn’t be, since all it means, technically, is to reveal something. But the new wave of alien conspiracy theorists have made “disclosure” into a teasingly ...

The Story of Birds, subtitled An evolutionary history of the dinosaurs that live among us, does exactly what it says on the tin. Brusatte recounts the evolution of birds from their origins deep in the ...

The Xenomorph is obviously the star of the show in 20th Century's Alien franchise, but after playing the prologue of Alien: Isolation 2 at Summer Game Fest, I found myself unexpectedly excited not by ...