The Alien movie franchise has become iconic for its sci-fi-horror imagery – built around its official “mascot,” the Xenomorph. The black-skinned, eyeless, and serpentine-like creatures have inspired ...

While the creature itself was an integral aspect of this storyline, its real significance is how well it depicted the ...

The Xenomorph's life cycle matches the tactics of real-life parasitic wasps, whose larvae grow by feeding on plants and animals. Some parasitic wasps use long ovipositors to deposit eggs deep ...

and pick it up back once I was safe – a very real, very human response to danger. The Xenomorphs' primary behavioral ...