When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Kermit Pattison THE ZOOLOGIST’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens — ...

From Suzanne Simard to Ed Yong, science journalists and researchers have probed the myriad ways plants and animals communicate: chemical signals amid old-growth redwoods, interplay between insects and ...

Conceptual illustration of alien microbes superimposed on Mars. Mars once had a wet climate, which prompts many astronomers to believe that life may have arisen there in the past, and perhaps exists ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. Animals as varied as sharks, salamanders, and duck-billed platypuses can detect electric fields around them, while some fish, including the South American ...

In this rewarding study, Cambridge University zoologist Kershenbaum (The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy) examines the meaning behind howls, screeches, and other calls of the wild. He explains that ...

Over the last decades, researchers who study animal behavior have succeeded in largely blurring the line between Homo sapiens and other animals. Like their human counterparts, animals feel emotions, ...

There are many ways of being alone. You can be alone in a room, a house, even a crowd. You can be really alone in a wilderness, or really, really alone in the universe.It’s that last, existential and ...

Introduction -- Form vs function : what is common across worlds? -- What are animals and what are aliens? -- Movement - scuttling and gliding across space -- Communication channels -- Intelligence ...

When talking about aliens, zoologist Arik Kershenbaum believes we need to adopt a new language. “We need a language to speak about aliens, which is not the language of Hollywood,” he tells Inverse. In ...

Scientists are listening in on sperm whale conversations and studying Earth's strangest microbes to prepare humanity for first contact with extraterrestrial life.