{"id":10437,"date":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/local-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-species-that-acts-just-like-the-alien-monster\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T00:00:00","slug":"local-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-species-that-acts-just-like-the-alien-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/local-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-species-that-acts-just-like-the-alien-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Scientists Have Discovered A New Species That Acts Just Like The Alien Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>An Adelaide Uni PhD student has discovered a new species of wasp that behaves in a disturbingly similar way to the creature in the famous Alien movie franchise.<\/h3>\n<p>According to the uni:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe new species, Dolichogenidea xenomorph, injects its eggs into live caterpillars and the baby wasp larvae slowly eat the caterpillar from the inside out, bursting out once they have eaten their fill. The wasp larvae then change into adult wasps and continue the hunt for more caterpillars in which to lay their eggs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And lead researcher Erinn Fagan-Jeffries says the wasp even looks a bit like the famous movie monster.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDolichogenidea xenomorph acts as a parasite in caterpillars in a similar way that the fictional Alien creature does in its human host.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe wasp is also black and shiny like the alien, and has a couple of weird traits for the genus &#8212; so xenomorph, meaning \u2018strange form\u2019, fits really well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt less than 5mm in length, Dolichogenidea xenomorph might seem to lack the punch of its fearsome namesake. But size is relative. To a host caterpillar, it\u2019s an awesome predator.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UniofAdelaide?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UniofAdelaide<\/a> PHD has found a new type of wasp, with similarities to the creature in the movie Alien <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIVEAANews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIVEAANews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/38zaUwWvkH\">pic.twitter.com\/38zaUwWvkH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matthew Pantelis  (@MatthewPantelis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewPantelis\/status\/1011809982474383361?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Adelaide Uni PhD student has discovered a new species of wasp that behaves in a disturbingly similar way to the creature in the famous Alien movie franchise. According to the uni: \u201cThe new species, Dolichogenidea xenomorph, injects its eggs into live caterpillars and the baby wasp larvae slowly eat the caterpillar from the inside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5281,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-10437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Local Scientists Have Discovered A New Species That Acts Just Like The Alien Monster - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/local-scientists-have-discovered-a-new-species-that-acts-just-like-the-alien-monster\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Local Scientists Have Discovered A New Species That Acts Just Like The Alien Monster\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An Adelaide Uni PhD student has discovered a new species of wasp that behaves in a disturbingly similar way to the creature in the famous Alien movie franchise. 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