Alien species are taking over nature. Rogue rats are running amok on remote islands, predatory crayfish are cruising English rivers, Japanese knotweed is strangling South Wales, water hyacinth is ...

Biodiversity is great in theory, but there are reasons to fend off invasive species and the knock-on effect of their presence Britain would be a wasteland if it weren’t for immigration. Fifteen ...

Rats are among the alien species which have caused global extinctions. Pictured: Rats eat grains of puffed rice in Allahabad on July 28, 2015. Getty Images/Sanjay Kanojia Maybe it's a good thing we ...

The European Commission proposed today (9 September) a new regulation to list and ban invasive alien species of plants and animals that are not welcome in Europe. There are currently more than 12,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alien plants and animals have cost Europe over $1.5 trillion, study finds Alien plants and animals cost Europe over $1.5 trillion ...

A self-published paper by retired paleontologist Clifford Miles claimed that Nazca mummies from Peru represented a new family ...

Britain is under threat from more than 66 alien plant and animal species headed our way, experts warn, including a monster seaweed and a killer catfish. The ‘codium parvulum’ seaweed was recorded ...

The steady rise in alien invasions is troubling scientists, who are concerned about the innocent Earth creatures that could be threatened. A group of researchers reported that the number of invasive ...

An invasive species also called as introduced species, alien species or exotic species is an introduced organism that becomes ...

alien beings living on a distant world around another star would look 'just like animals on Earth' and be formed from the same processes, an astrobiologist claims. Arik Kershenbaum, author of a new ...

This may not be the news you want to hear, but a leading astrophysicist is convinced we’re all animals in an elaborate zoo run by aliens. And these aliens could be inflicting ‘weird politics’ on us ...