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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Japan zoo kills 57 snow monkeys over 'alien genes' A zoo in Japan has culled 57 of its snow monkeys by lethal injection after ...

Hollywood tends to depict aliens as other-worldly, monster-like beings, but they may have more in common with humans than we initially thought. New research by scientists from the University of Oxford ...

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Scientists claim a new map of the octopus genetic code has revealed a creature so strange that it could be an "alien". The creatures have a hugely complicated genome sequence, and have more ...