You’ve heard of the beard of bees — well, I’m wearing a full balaclava of them. They’re enveloping me so thickly I look like a sideshow apiarist. I swipe my palms across my face and they collect ...

Alien: Earth was only just renewed for a second season, but it's already poised to repeat one of Prometheus' worst mistakes. Alien: Earth is, by almost every measure, a big success. It has 94% ...

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Alien: Earth creator Noah Hawley has publicly stated that the TV spinoff series will not feature a crossover with Predator, ...

The Goliath birdeater ( Theraphosa blondi) is the world’s largest spider, with a leg span up to 30 cm (12 in). Its hairy, ...

Deep in the jungles of Vietnam lies a hidden world untouched for millions of years—where clouds form underground, rainforests ...

In recent years, a new danger has emerged in the Darién Gap. This lawless stretch of ungovernable jungle has become a hive of ...

The origin of humankind has given rise to countless theories, forms, stories, and moments... But now, scientists have found ...

A hyper-realistic picture of life during that Pleistocene era emerges with Apple TV's five-part, computer-driven “Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age,” which takes place millions of years after the dinosaurs’ ...

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be. In a new study ...