Octopuses break so many biological expectations that scientists still struggle to explain how they ended up this way through ...

The Alien franchise has always focused on just one titular alien — the Xenomorph. Yes, over the years, we got extrapolations of the Xenomorph, like the Queen, and the facehuggers. Yet they all still ...

I've seen some gnarly shit. One morning in the third grade, a crush threw up her breakfast all over me. Cut to regurgitated milk and Eggo waffles soaked into my uniform. About a year later, a stapler ...

Back when Alien: Earth premiered on FX and Hulu, all of three weeks ago, IGN’s Clint Gage said in his review of the first two episodes that, “The xenomorph is playing the hits, as it were. But this ...

The algae octopus (Abdopus aculeatus), also called the prickly octopus, lives in the Indo-West Pacific. Despite its modest size — its mantle (main body) is only 3 inches long with arms stretching up ...

Editor's note: The below contains major spoilers for the Alien: Earth finale. The first two Alien films are among the most terrifying sci-fi horror movies ever made, but then the franchise lost its ...

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The idea of isolation is prevalent through the Alien series. In space, no one can hear you scream, often because there’s nobody left to hear you scream. That theme also extends to the idea of what ...

It is not the least of this world’s wonders that it’s been nearly half a century since Ellen Ripley, in the person of Sigourney Weaver, sent the Alien, in the person of a person in an Alien suit, ...

The so-called ticks are not the only extraterrestrial bugs appearing on Alien: Earth. We’ve also got a nest of flies, which seems to live inside a hornet’s nest from our own world. We don’t know much ...