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 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 ...

VR studio and label Creature announced Starship Home, a plant-filled mixed reality adventure that turns your living room into a spacecraft on a mission to save alien flora. Coming exclusively to Quest ...

The use of biological control for invasive alien plants and invertebrates, such as introducing a rust fungus (Puccinia spegazzinii) to control bitter vine (Mikania micrantha) in the Asia-Pacific ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new report presents major findings on the gravity of impacts from invasive alien species on our planet. A new report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) ...