Aliens: the spread of invasive plants and animals across Europe – in pictures

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 ...
Yahoo News UK

Invasive species threaten most protected areas across the world - new study

The human population is growing rapidly and making increasing demands on the planet for food, water and natural resources. As a result, environments worldwide are being converted to agricultural and ...
Daily Mail

What alien life will REALLY look like: Researchers claim they are 'confident' of finding complex, animal-like creatures

If life were to arise on an alien world, it could one day become as complex as that which we know on Earth. This is according to a new study, which argues that the universe may be a ‘cosmic zoo’ of ...
The Independent

Tackling Britain's 'green xenophobia' over alien plants and animals: Our ecological systems can be helped, not harmed, by incoming flora and fauna

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 ...
Politico Europe

EU to list and ban invasive alien species

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 ...
Daily Mail

'It might kill you in your sleep': Man discovers alien-like animal living in his aquarium after taking plants from a lake - but do you know what it is?

The plants were taken from Lake Waikaremoana, on the North Island in New Zealand. But it was four weeks before the man, known only as Angus, noticed what appeared to be some sort of life form swimming ...
International Business Times

Here's How Alien Species Are Killing Off Our Animals And Plants, Causing Global Extinction

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 Mirror

'Alien life form' spotted crawling across the ground looks like 'creature that got lost on earth'

An ' alien life form' has been spotted crawling along the ground - and has baffled everyone who has seen it. The strange creature looks like "an alien life form that has got lost on earth" after it ...
The Sixth Axis

Stranded: Alien Dawn Update 2 lets you tame alien animals

Haemimont Games has released a second major update for Stranded: Alien Dawn, the Tame and Train Update bringing a bunch of new features to help your survivors carve out a new life once they’re ...
The Sun

Bizarre snaps of goat auction in Jordan show animals that look like aliens as bidders flock to buy rare breeds

The goats on show at the exhibition and auction in Amman, Jordan are highly sought after 'pure breeds' THESE bizarre photos from a goat auction in Amman, Jordan, show punters bidding on rare animals ...
The Mirror

'Alien life form' spotted crawling across the ground looks like 'creature that got lost on earth'

An ' alien life form' has been spotted crawling along the ground - and has baffled everyone who has seen it. The strange creature looks like "an alien life form that has got lost on earth" after it ...