Alexander Wooley is the director of partnerships and communications at AidData, and a former British Royal Navy officer. Our imaginations, in recent years, have been trained on the stars above us.

This Indo-Pacific stunner dons a kaleidoscope shell of greens, blues, reds, and oranges, with purple eyes that swivel independently. At 3-18 cm long, it packs a punch like a .22 bullet using club-like ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An alien-like Mola mola surprised surfers as it surfaced along the San Diego coastline, ultimately dying and washing ashore. “A ...

Deep beneath the surface of the ocean lies an extreme marine ecosystem home to submarine volcanoes, an opening in the seafloor erupting with magma to form new crust. Void of light with an immense ...

Parasitic sea lamprey has a suction-cup mouth filled with circular rows of teeth. It's like something right out of a Stephen King novel — or maybe just the next chapter of 2020, the one that follows ...