“Animals” of some sort are likely – because all life needs energy, and when competition heats up, some organisms are going to start eating other ones. Movement is highly constrained by the physical ...

"Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to what aliens might be like, we imagine that life on other planets is the stuff of ...

On the fictional planet Veteris, creatures blur every line between plant and animal — walking flowers, photosynthetic predators, and symbiotic pairs unlike anything in the real animal kingdom. What is ...