A close look at a viral spider video reveals how web-building spiders use silk to restrain, transport, and consume large prey ...

Spider-Man may not have one of his newest companions for that much longer, but it is certainly one of the cuter versions of ...

On the cracked ice of Jupiter’s moon Europa, a sprawling pattern of dark lines has taken on an unsettling nickname: a “demon” ...

‘Predator: Badlands’ contains several references to the ‘Alien’ franchise, but how deep does the connection go, and what does it mean for future sewu Alien and Predator aren’t nearly as intertwined as ...

In October 2025, a Facebook post (archived) about an unusual finding spread across the platform. According to the post, scientists discovered robotic micro spiders from the comet 3I/ATLAS in ...

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In western Australia, in a patch of ancient forest undisturbed by people, researchers set up pitfall traps with the goal of collecting elusive spiders. Their survey yielded two rare female specimens ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered “Alien” in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...

Among the many strange biological wonders Charles Darwin observed in his time, one haunted him above all. “‘The eye, to this day, gives me a cold shudder,” he admitted in a letter to an American ...

We’ve already made our opinion knownOpens in a new tab, but T.Ocellus, a.k.a. “the octopus eye,” especially when it’s inside a poor zombified sheep — is the scariest alien in all of Alien: Earth. The ...