Hint;
They’re fictional.
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…So that would mean it is, in fact, correct to refer to it as “a xenomorph”? Thank you for the permission, I guess. 
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I had a friend who liked to call the fictional aliens of Ridley Scott’s franchise ‘Encephalopods…’
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E.T. says “Phone somebody who cares.”
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Would you prefer the much more specific term “alien”?
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Evolution is continuous. Its origin doesn’t matter.
A bioengineered organism’s life cycle doesn’t have to make sense from an evolutionary perspective.
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Kudos for pairing these two together because i never woulda thought of that and wish i had! I take issue with the xeno transporting the eggs though, i thought the queen plops them down with her ovipositor.
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Oh yeah, smarty pants?! Whaddya call this guy then??
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A termite or ant queen lays eggs but doesn’t normally move them around herself.
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Right, but what about bio-engineered alien killing machines? 
It’s a lifeform based of plot-ology. I mean, it has that super-acid blood for no good reason, other than to eat through decks and stuff. (Baking soda, ammonia or laundry detergent would probably burn or explode them.)
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I wonder how they fertilize the eggs? Or is it speciesist to assume they need fertilization?
It’s implied that the Alien species doesn’t need to mate in order to reproduce, but instead the xenomorphs incorporate genetic material from the hosts the embryos develop inside of. For example, the xenomorphs from the first two Alien movies were mostly bipedal and humanoid, whereas the one from Alien3 was borne from a dog and had a build better suited for a fast quadruped. The chestburster from the end of Alien vs. Predator had mandible jaws similar to the Predator species.
This kind of makes design sense as a bioweapon because the resulting creatures would be well-adapted to survive in whatever environment their targets lived in.
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From their perspective, we’re the aliens, man.
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I was counting the days until Alien came out, but one of my sisters managed to see it before I did.
She described it thusly:
“You know how, when the movie is over & everyone is leaving, & talking & laughing on their way to their cars?
After this movie, no one was saying anything.”
I saw it a few days later. It’s a strange thing to see everyone in the audience jump at the same time.
And my sister was right.
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I just had the exact same thought watching this (even though it was fun). A lifecycle with TWO egg stages (one nest, one host) feels over complex and counter-evolutionary, especially for an apex predator species that apparently evolves very quickly indeed in other ways.
Is there a parallel in nature?
Butterflies, kinda?
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I guess, though the caterpillar transforms itself into a second ‘egg’ rather than laying one.
I get than this is all for body horror, and it totally works; these days I find the whole parasite zombie fungus ant wasp idea far more squeeee .
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Band name!!
But also really weird and creepy and oh my god no thank you, totally.
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