It wasn’t a bird, and it wasn’t a plane, but it was a blob? Or more accurately, it was a type of sea mollusk that washed ashore on South Padre Island recently, to the amazement and amusement of one ...

When Ridley Scott first premiered "Alien" in 1979, a new era of practical effects and creature design was ushered into the cultural zeitgeist. Almost 50 years later, the world that Scott built ...