A plant that lived 47 million years ago in what is now Utah is like nothing that lives on planet Earth today. The discovery of new fossils reveals that a species first found in 1969 is not a member of ...

Alien Technology, a company backed with millions of taxpayer dollars and once heralded as a future cornerstone of high-tech business in Fargo and North Dakota, might close its Fargo plant. That's one ...

Deep in the Namib Desert, Africa's wildest wilderness, among the many interesting discoveries of the desert lives a remarkable survivor. Known in Afrikaans as "tweeblaarkanniedood" meaning, "two ...

Zarah Pattison receives funding from NERC, UKRI. A lot of people think of plants as pretty to look at, but defenceless and passive as far as organisms go. However, the many alien species – or “monster ...

An “alien plant” fossil discovered 55 years ago just outside of an abandoned town in Utah has no relation to any currently existing or extinct species, scientists revealed in a study last month.

A "strange" prehistoric plant species is the lone representative of a mysterious group of organisms that no longer exists, scientists have discovered. The first evidence of the species—in the form of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers found this by overlaying maps of Indigenous people’s lands (IPLs) with recently published of millions of alien species from around the ...

Plans to produce diesel fuel from "alien" plants growing in South Africa grabbed the attention of international delegates attending a bio-energy conference in Durban on Monday. The delegates, from 12 ...