Alien life may not need the kind of home humans instinctively search for. Some of the strangest possibilities begin once ...

The ocean covers more than 70% of Earth’s surface, yet we’ve explored less than 20% of it. Beneath the familiar waves lies a world so strange, so extreme, and so biologically diverse that it makes the ...

The Teeming Universe imagines alien ecosystems shaped by radically different planetary conditions. One world supports ...

The idea of isolation is prevalent through the Alien series. In space, no one can hear you scream, often because there’s nobody left to hear you scream. That theme also extends to the idea of what ...

IUCN has launched its first global strategy to tackle invasive alien species, one of the world’s greatest drivers of biodiversity loss and species extinctions. It sets out how IUCN’s Members, ...

The ecological stability of Mediterranean marine ecosystems is increasingly threatened by invasive alien species (IAS). This study examines the invasion dynamics of Callinectes sapidus, a high-risk ...

Every day, on nearly every ship cruising the world's oceans and lakes, millions of stowaways are hitching a lift. When set free at the end of their voyage, some set up home in their new surroundings - ...