For this installment of "From the Archives," we answer a reader question about the monk parakeets and grackles in Austin.

Los Angeles is no stranger to weird stories. This year featured a string of bizarre stories that ranged from strange crimes ...

Michigan sports eight species of maples (Acer spp.), with only one alien, Norway maple. Together, maples comprise about one ...

Players do get little glimpses of the Xenomorph before this point — they'll witness it kill an NPC with its tail, hear it ...

Despite the vast differences in human and bee brains, both of us can do mathematics. As we argue in a new paper published in ...

Erik Irmer has been documenting the spread of invasive plant and animal species that disrupt native ecology across Europe. He focuses on humans’ interactions with these plants and animals. Aliens is p ...

The elm zigzag sawfly has spread to 15 states in five years. Now it's attacking the tree that cities planted to replace Dutch ...

The arachnophobes have come to a decision: jumping spiders can stay. The other spiders must leave, but jumping spiders are ...

There were about as many deadly bear attacks in Japan in just 2025 as there are in the United States in the average decade.

Across towns and cities, the trees that define our neighborhoods, cool our homes, and help tie our landscapes together are disappearing one construction project and “routine” removal at a time. We ...

Cartoonist and counterculture icon R. Crumb reflects on his remarkable life and work in a new interview from his home in the South of France.