Alien queen

There is some speculation, midway through the film Aliens, as to whether the alien species of the title organises itself in a similar hierarchy to ants, with a queen at the top. “Yeah man,” says Hudson, insightfully. “The queen alien is gonna be really big.” A lucky guess, as it turns out, but not the only possibilty. The alien queen could so easily have looked like this:

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