What is this called?
  • 196 points CatticusXIII

    I think it's 2 things. A phronima and a salp. The phronima attack the salp to eat their insides. Then they lay their eggs in the shell to protect them. Supposedly they are the inspiration for the Xenomorphs.

    Sauce

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    43 points D1VYN3

    Alien is my favorite franchise of anything and I didnt know this. Thanks!

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    17 points [deleted]

    Youre my favorite franchise as a human for existing

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    9 points ketamine_denier

    You can be a franchisee for only…idk…$20,000, you can venmo me

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    3 points [deleted]

    The fuck is venmo?

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    12 points Now_Melon1218

    Hint: It's not a salp.

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    0 points ketamine_denier

    A way you can pay me the franchising fee. I’ll accept pretty much any platform or method including valid world currencies tho

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    3 points [deleted]

    Il send you 2 CRO

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    3 points Which_Bandicoot1930

    Do you expect expired coupons sir

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    2 points ketamine_denier

    No but I accept them. You must be talking about my 50% off coupon? I will gladly honor that, send me $10,000

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    1 points Which_Bandicoot1930

    Hmm 🤔🧐 tooshey good sir.... Tooshey indeed.. yasss

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    6 points NoDinner7903

    I am a 37yo man giggling at the word "tooshey" in place of touche. Thank you for the morning joy and have a beautiful day

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    3 points RadioDaddio

    Boneappletea

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    1 points [deleted]

    When in doubt il rake it out

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    1 points bostonpopstrumpetgal

    I am officially old enough to remember coupons before barcodes when people would “accidentally” cut off the expiration date. No, I have no idea why I mentioned that :)

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    -1 points D1VYN3

    Problem is i dont think any 'normal' human has 20k to jus drop.. lol

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    0 points [deleted]

    Shhh you just dropped me 20k after all these hours on my"venmo" and honestly my ass has never been tighter

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    1 points D1VYN3

    I dont believe you lol...

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    1 points [deleted]

    Beliebe in youb selb den

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    1 points D1VYN3

    No bewief

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    1 points [deleted]

    Bequeef?

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    1 points D1VYN3

    Hard Sneeze.

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    1 points [deleted]

    Queef sneeze

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    1 points krispykurl

    Watch the documentary on Aliens/Geiger the artist behind it all

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    1 points Humble-Pain-4608

    To hijack this further I share my own "I didn't know that about my favourite movie"
    https://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/18jjqu9/til_that_the_armored_personnel_carrier_m577_from/

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    1 points D1VYN3

    That's sick Asf! I knew it had to be a custom made, but an Airplane Towing Truck? Wild.

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    10 points FuckYouCorpo

    This seems like off-world propaganda. You mean to tell me that there is an invisible jello lobster... but that it also lives inside the dead bodies of a sleeping-bag shaped invisible jello creature... and that those creatures are native to earth?

    Yeah Right! directed by Ty Evans and Spike Jonze.

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    5 points CatticusXIII

    I understand your concerns.If you could just step into my clear jelly office I'm sure we can gut get this all sorted out.

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    1 points Complete-Duck641

    Baby Alien forsure the disclosure starts....lol..i'll see my self out.

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    3 points Joe01091981

    Little dude looks like a mini underwater alien from The Abyss

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    5 points 0ctopusGarden

    Such a cool find! That is indeed a phronima, also known as a barrel amphipod. They typically live in the midwater. But can be found on the surface and as deep as 600m and I've never found a living one on shore! #jealous

    Source: I'm a marine scientist, but also here's MBARI

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    3 points KermitlyNotFound

    This comment should be top

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    2 points LachoooDaOriginl

    So, bro literally picks up the irl xenomorph.

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    2 points BallComprehensive737

    It looked like the alien queen from independence day 2 to me

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    1 points branchpattern

    I've always heard it was the last ichneumon wasp?

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    1 points A_million_typos

    And....I can see why now! Wow. Love it!!

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    1 points feltaintfungus

    Came here to be a smart ass and am not disappointed by this answer.

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  • 48 points metroidslifesucks

    It's a Put That Thing Back Where It Came From Or So Help Me.

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    20 points DontWatchPornREADit

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    4 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    First thing it wasn’t me I would never touch it and second thing…I see your avatar a lot, is it coincidence or is that “f her right in the p” guy 😂 I see it a lot and it can’t be dumb luck. Sorry I would fully say it but sometimes people get upset and then I get in trouble for what I’ve said

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  • 60 points Aromatic-Relief

    It's pilot from farscape.

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    12 points Excellent_Yak365

    I was thinking one of these

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    5 points L_Vayne

    I find this gif oddly disturbing. Where can I find more?

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    4 points Excellent_Yak365

    I just searched No Face in the GIF search

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    5 points Drewsif1980

    Check out Princess Mononoke.

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    2 points GhostInTheSystem

    Kodama from Princess Mononoke.

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    6 points ChazWillie

    🤣🤣🤣🤣

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    7 points D33ber

    Tiny Moira is somewhere nearby.

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    4 points zack-tunder

    For those curious, found some transparent animals

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    2 points Specialist_Fun_2106

    That was really interesting! Thanks for sharing!

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    5 points Eastman186

    Jesus Christ - I haven't thought about farscape in 2 decades.

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    2 points ComfortableOk4325

    Right!

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    2 points Life-Significance-33

    Makes me glad I have a hard copy of the entire series.

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    0 points Sea-Blueberry-1840

    Farscape!!!!

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  • 35 points Sadsandal007

    That’s a fricken alien I don’t care what anyone says! The ocean is crazy!

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    17 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    Imagine that im almost 35 and im still seeing new things is wild, imagine the things that we will never see 😬 like this guy, in the water I bet you’d never even see it

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    14 points Life-Ad-3726

    I'm 54 and still seeing new things, like the thing in this video. 🧐

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    6 points brown-and-sticky

    I'm 69 and still seeing your mother, she does not look anything like the thing is this video.

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    1 points Danpool13

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    1 points Life-Ad-3726

    That's cause your 69 and looking at her asshole Mr. Brown and sticky. Mom never did wipe.

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    4 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    That’s helps atleast I’m not alone lol

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    3 points PsychologicalBend373

    43 yr/ M here Internet has made it that we can see things we can only have imagined. The ocean is scary by the way

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    3 points Sadsandal007

    So scary!!

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    2 points Sadsandal007

    Yup I’m 41 and same lol the ocean is crazy too so deep there are things no one has seen!

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  • 11 points XyberNut

    Xenomorph

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    3 points poop_monster35

    An albino Xenomorph

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  • 16 points Happy-Lingonberry185

    I'd group that in with the 'berries of nature I DON'T eat'

    All jokes aside I have no idea what that thang is.

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    9 points BassGoBoom_20

    Berries and scream. Berries and scream. I'm a little lad who loves berries and screeaaammmm. Idk why I'm like this.

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    3 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    Idk why it didn’t show me this until now but you unlocked a memory for me and idk where it’s from which is the crazy part

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    2 points onehundredbuttholes

    Lifesavers or skittles I forget which

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    2 points BassGoBoom_20

    Starburst commercial from the early 2000's. "Berries and cream, berries and cream. I'm a little lad who loves berries and crrreeeeaaammmmmmmmmmaahhh" the 2000s were chaotic as fuck. I miss the advertisements from those days.

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    3 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    Id I can’t get past what I assume is it’s face. That thing is fuel for nightmare

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    3 points koboldtsar

    It looks like a tiny chef

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    1 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    I came back an hour later still thinking about it being a berry and I’m wondering what it would take for someone to eat this?

    Like, if I give you $20 would you do it 😂😂

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    2 points irrelephantIVXX

    Eh, Christmas is almost here. I'll do it.

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    1 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    I wasn’t going to say this but I’m already this far…

    I wonder if it would pop like a fear factor eyeball or if it’s like jello 🤔

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  • 8 points sw6689

    It’s a Vl’urgh as described in “The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy”; came to invade the earth but miscalculated its size

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    2 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    🎶So long and thanks for all the fish 🐬

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    1 points AnnonAutist

    And Another Thing

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    1 points HLGatoell

    I don’t see any dogs around. It might just make it.

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  • 7 points HoseNeighbor

    They're called Glass Ass Hoppers because they look like glass and try to crawl up your ass.

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    3 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    Pfft! Good luck any creature crawling up my ass, that place is locked up air tight like Fort Knox. You’d need a stick of dynamite and even still I’m not going down without a fight

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    3 points InevitableSuper5826

    That's the spirit!

    r/dontputthatinyourass

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  • 9 points spaghetti-o_salad

    If you're cold, they're cold. Put them in your ears.

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    1 points ClaraInOrange

    AHAHAHA

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  • 6 points Danny-Fr

    I'm I the only one to find it cute? It's cute. Look at it washing it's little grass-like legs. It's got a mask on. Cute.

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  • 3 points rapidstrafe

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  • 4 points AverageJoe4802

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  • 3 points Yum_Yukker

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    1 points aja1622

    My first thought too 🤣😂

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  • 4 points Greedyfox7

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    1 points ClaraInOrange

    Awesome

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  • 3 points CheetahNo9349

    That's gonna kill me.That's real. That lives with us on Earth.

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    1 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    If you could pick to live in the ocean with those things or in space with whatever is there…where would you go?

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    2 points CheetahNo9349

    I would go underwater, because 🤞there is less chance of running into some cosmic horror that could extend my consciousness into infinity while it endlessly torments me until the heat death of the universe.

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    2 points ClaraInOrange

    I mean, if course 😶

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    1 points TrikRik84

    Might wanna read some HP Lovecraft... you're not safe anywhere 😂🤣😂🤣

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  • 3 points TieAdventurous6839

    Its called "burn it with fire" and is aptly named.

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  • 3 points Altruistic-Poem-5617

    Looks like some crustation that lives in one of these football shaped jellyfish things.

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  • 2 points AdRepresentative8236

    Looks like one of those honeypot(?) ants that fills itself up with honey?/water?

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    2 points IHateHedonism

    No this is a kind of crustacean. Forgot what it's called but the females hunt salps and makes this sort of structure for it's eggs out of the dead scalp. Phronima I think it was called?

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    3 points AdRepresentative8236

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  • 2 points E90-Rage

    Sea lice, I think.

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  • 2 points ConsiderationAny5304

    A fleshlight for Smurfs.

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    1 points Spiritual-Macaron-13

    Omg 🤣 anything will fit you just have to push hard enough

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    1 points Jazzlike_Strength561

    Damn you for that visual.

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  • 2 points Mysterious-Review965

    Looks like a Phronima (amphipod) inside a salp. They feed on those, so it makes sense)

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    2 points ApologeticCannibal

    The only serious response in the comments and it's at the bottom.

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  • 2 points bravohotelechomike

    It is the forbidden jelly bean. Or a salp. You do you.

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  • 2 points Unique_Dark9092

    Forbidden lychee

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  • 2 points Dependent-Astronaut2

    das a xenomorph.

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  • 2 points _Whimsicrow_

    I am pretty sure that's a baby Xenomorph.

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  • 2 points ExperienceSoft3892

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  • 2 points Trekkie74

    Alien

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    2 points masoko

    This or AI

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  • 2 points JediAsad

    PUT IT BACK! That is what its called!

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  • 2 points TheDottieDot

    There needs to be an animated movie with this creature as the star of the show.

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  • 2 points NewStudyHoney

    A xenomorph queen

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  • 2 points Astro_Cactus

    This one's called Jeremy

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  • 1 points haleontology

    Isn't that sea lice?

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  • 1 points Happytobutwont

    Whatever it wants

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  • 1 points IHateHedonism

    Phronima

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    2 points CatticusXIII

    Inside of a salp too by the looks of it.

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  • 1 points D33ber

    The Faculty

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  • 1 points melloncollie1126

    That's one of them aliens they say are underwater now 🤣

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  • 1 points [deleted]

    [deleted]

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    1 points 2021sammysammy

    Do developing snails have legs like that? I think this is wrong

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    1 points YakAttack4260

    good point. you are right

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  • 1 points Girlx-T-wrecks

    It’s a please put it back and don’t hurt it.

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  • 1 points BlueberryAny6827

    Idk what it is, but I want one.

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  • 1 points Unlikely_Ad_4767

    They

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  • 1 points 509Ninja

    That’s an alien 👽

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  • 1 points joyfullydreaded23

    Baby Kaonashi (No-Face)

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  • 1 points Twigdoc

    Salp

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  • 1 points NBAcoach

    Thats a neighbor bear

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  • 1 points bardobrian

    Kind of resembles a praying mantis

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  • 1 points 3ftLongHorseCock

    We must purge the xenos brothers.

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  • 1 points Delicious_Week7941

    https://preview.redd.it/f62k3wcncu6g1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9e2ef56d5729ed788c15b3823f91cca502efc52c

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  • 1 points Alien_Pooky

    Did I actually see this thing blink! Lol

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  • 1 points Insis18

    I'm getting Pilot from Farscape vibes.

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  • 1 points Bazzinga25

    Nightmare

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  • 1 points Impossible-Pomelo-59

    Is this really real? Wow! I have never seen this before! But very trippy and cool!! Woah...

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  • 1 points No-Marzipan9449

    It's knitting its name

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  • 1 points findingsynchronisity

    Its is called terrifying

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  • 1 points Agent0fChaoZ

    Abathur, Zerg alien species.

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    1 points ambivalent_bakka

    Agree

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  • 1 points jaxcole2

    AI what a hoax

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  • 1 points O-D-A-A-T

    For fucks sake Morty now we've gotta go to an alternate timeline why the fuck did you have to touch the goddamn demon shrimp?

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  • 1 points GreenElly84

    Cute

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  • 1 points jake1556

    Its called either kill it before it reproduces or let it bite you and see what powers you get

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  • 1 points Emotional-Mud-7631

    Ius called fake AI RUBBISH

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  • 1 points Chance-Procedure-886

    Watch the movie The Abyss and you'll learn what that is

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  • 1 points AintNoMastersHere

    First contact?

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  • 1 points Medical-Dust-7184

    What IS that? "I dunno...let's TOUCH it..."

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    2 points AshersVoice

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  • 1 points JahGiraffe

    I thought it was a crab zoea

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  • 1 points Groundbreaking_Cat27

    It looks like one of those animals from Scavenger's Reign

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  • 1 points delrey23

    I was ready for it to do a barbershop quartet number after popping out

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  • 1 points No-Card-6936

    It's a nopeamus maximus

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  • 1 points Specialist_Durian820

    It looks like those things that talk to Virgil in The Abyss.

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  • 1 points Altruistic-Monk-5913

    Sea monkey!!

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  • 1 points xGenocidest

    Thats the Hive Queen from Independence Day

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  • 1 points Due-Lobster-9333

    I think its called a Xenomorph

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  • 1 points FuturisticPlethora

    Emerging from a cocoon

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  • 1 points JackfruitOk9557

    Horse shit

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  • 1 points WhileNo1095

    AI

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  • 1 points Arkenstahl

    pram bug, barrel shrimp, sci. name Phromina. NOT AI

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  • 1 points th4t84st4rd

    It's called being stupid and touching things with your bare hands.

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  • 1 points ShallotMaterial8446

    I am Groot!

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  • 1 points Small_Woodpecker1681

    Creepy

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  • 1 points javasquez7419

    Alien

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  • 1 points HappyBottomSexToys

    I don't know, but I think it just places a spell on you!

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  • 1 points MiguelDominguez100

    Oh...Reddit!

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  • 1 points RutabagaHot6802

    It looks like a smaller version of “mother” from Coraline wearing a chef’s hat

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  • 1 points freedom2022780

    You found a baby alien 👽

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  • 1 points joeker7669

    Why the fuck are you holding it?

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  • 1 points Got_shorted

    PUT.IT.BACK!

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  • 1 points Gothgirlcherry

    Wow the subreddit name 😭

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  • 1 points RichardFitsWellll

    It's a new covid vaccine that needs to be inserted via the rectum

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  • 0 points -MEGATR0N_56ACE-

    An invasion. Call ICE. Maybe they can do something worth while.

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