When worlds collide, indeed. In a fascinating mash-up of paleontology and pop culture, scientists have named a 500-million-year-old worm fossil from the Grand Canyon Kraytdraco spectatus, inspired by ...

Star Wars has once again influenced pop culture, this time inspiring the name of a recently-discovered creature. The franchise George Lucas created has been ubiquitous since the first film hit ...

The titular stars of this 1959 creature feature also commit the cardinal sin of walking on two legs. That’s not really their fault, however, as they were once normal leeches but mutated owing to ...