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Filmmakers have shaped our perception of the unknown, and Steven Spielberg has had aliens on the mind for a while now. He ...

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Ancient fossils reveal giant scorpions, Praearcturus gigas, exceeding a meter in length, dominated Britain over 400 million ...

Long before humans walked the planet, Earth belonged to creatures that looked straight out of a sci-fi film. Giants resembling dinosaurs, but with absurdly long necks; giant fish that could even walk ...

A stark landscape of the Great Salt Lake at low water levels. The lake’s extreme environment is home to a surprisingly small but resilient community of organisms. Shutterstock A tiny worm discovered ...