Octopuses have a way of making familiar rules feel optional. They live on Earth but behave like visitors with a different ...

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 ...

The creepiest new alien that the Weyland-Yutani ship the Maginot discovered was what we call “the octopus eye,” whose official name is the T. Ocellus. We already saw in the first few episodes that ...

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 ...

Editor's note: The below recap contains spoilers for Alien: Earth Episode 4. So far on Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley has done a fantastic job of taking a half-century-old franchise in a new direction.

It has been the 'year of the octopus' in seas off Cornwall and the south west of England, as warm conditions led to the ...

Research‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ biologically the octopuses are fascinating because in a way they are the most alien creatures among marine ...

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So far on Alien: Earth, Noah Hawley has introduced us to four new extraterrestrial species aside from the classic Xenomorph. But after episode four of Alien: Earth, we think the Xeno, designed by the ...