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  2. Xenomorph - Wikipedia

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    The xenomorph lifecycle is expanded in the movie Alien: Romulus with the introduction of a "cocoon" stage, which bridges the gap between the chestburster and the fully-grown adult xenomorph stages as witnessed by the characters Bjorn and Kay while aboard the derelict Renaissance space station. It is shown that a chestburster that had emerged ...

  3. List of organisms named after works of fiction - Wikipedia

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    Xenomorph "The genus name refers to the endoparasitoid Xenomorph creature featured in the "Alien" media franchise." [281] Dolichogenidea xenomorph Fagan-Jeffries & Austin, 2018: Wasp: Xenomorph "This species is named for the fictional creature from the movie franchise 'Alien', which reportedly was inspired by the lifecycle of parasitic wasps ...

  4. Xenomorphia - Wikipedia

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    The generic name is in reference to the parasitic Xenomorph creature starring in the Alien franchise. The wasp's first fossils were discovered in Oligocene ( Chattian ) aged phosphorite mines located in the former Quercy province of France, the remains of 55 ancient fly ( Phoridae ) pupae were found preserved with Xenomorphia wasps inside of ...

  5. List of alleged extraterrestrial beings - Wikipedia

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    Cryptozoological animals and cryptobotanical plants, including those from folklore, religion (e.g. golem), mythology (e.g. dwarf (see also dwarfism); giants from Atlantis (see also gigantism), etc.), and some reports of ghosts, poltergeists, and time travellers (alleged) Mothman (see also American folklore) Jersey Devil; Loch Ness Monster ...

  6. List of animal names - Wikipedia

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    In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]

  7. Xenarthra - Wikipedia

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    The name Xenarthra, which means "strange joints", was chosen because the vertebral joints of members of the group have extra articulations of a type unlike any other mammals. This trait is referred to as "xenarthry". (Tree sloths lost these articulations to increase the flexibility of their spines, but their fossil ancestors had xenarthrous ...

  8. List of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names

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    The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...

  9. List of commonly used taxonomic affixes - Wikipedia

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    Origin: Ancient Greek: ἀ-, ἀν-(a, an-). Meaning: a prefix used to make words with a sense opposite to that of the root word; in this case, meaning "without" or "-less". This is usually used to describe organisms without a certain characteristic, as well as organisms in which that characteristic may not be immediately obvious.