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Charged151 posted...

By the time Rip and the Marines arrived on the scene, there were no Xenos/Facehuggers out and about...with the closest being facehuggers found in containers. They just seemed to all be in hibernation in the reactor area. So Newt seemed to out last them. Plus, facehuggers don't just seem to be out and about most (but not all as Romulus showed) of the time...usually jumping out of the eggs onto people's faces and dying shortly after.

I don't think facehuggers even consume sustenance. The egg keeps them dormant until a suitable host comes nearby. They aren't meant to exist for very long, especially once they've impregnated their unfortunate victim. It's not too unreasonable for Newt to have just hid during the initial attack and any facehugger was either spent or she didn't get near an egg.