alien

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Grace teams up with Rocky, a brilliant alien engineer who looks like a cross between a spider and a rock, and is the size of a Labrador.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Apers believe Bigfoot is just a primate unknown to science while Woo-Woos think Bigfoot is some sort of interdimensional traveller - an alien of sort.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

"Initially, I thought we must have sequenced some alien species. It's very rare for an active gene, which makes a protein, to not have a match."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

What he finds is a sweet, five-legged alien who appears to have a stone-like exterior.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2026

It worked for a while but then an alien torpedoed me through my own duct.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell