floating device but the similarities with the alien queen doesn't end just there they also then start depositing a lot of their progeny into the barrel into the salp itself and so when the female phronema lays its eggs on the inside this also ends up providing a lot of the structural support for its progeny as well and interestingly one of the common names for this unusual creature is pram bug or i guess if you're american stroller bug and that's because when the female gives birth and when there's just not enough space on the inside anymore it then moves to the outside and starts pushing the barrel from the outside as if it was a stroller or a pram which is a very unique and very strange adaptation that's not really seen in a lot of other animals i know that they still use a little bit more energy overall than a typical shrimp or any other crustacean living on a seafloor all of these very unique adaptations made this creature extremely successful which is why you can generally find them in most of the oceans around the world but these creatures also have some other unusual adaptations as well i guess one of them is the eyes that you see right here it has two sets of ice pointing upwards which the scientists today believe is used to sort of look for different shadows above the creature in order to find its potential prey in this case we're of course talking about salop and it also has two eyes on the side that are probably used for some other purposes such as for example maybe looking for partners or mates or potentially avoiding different predators but then certain other phonema have also developed a very unusual adaptation in their skin for example in phonemic sedentaria they have a very special pigment filled cells in their skin that sort of makes them invisible and specifically it sort of prevents reflections from their skin for example there are certain fish such as lanternfish that use their own natural bioluminescence in order to find their prey by reflecting the light they create themselves from the surface of the animal they're hunting and certain phronema developed specific skin cells to prevent this reflection from happening thus remaining invisible for essentially fish that would eat them otherwise which is a really cool adaptation and makes this creature even more fascinating but one thing i haven't mentioned yet is i guess how big these things are and if you're ever going to see them if you go swimming for example well since they are pretty common you could hypothetically see them but once again they are difficult to see because of their adaptations and in terms of size this is what they look like so not too big not too small definitely visible but unlike the alien from the movie aliens this doesn't really pose any danger to humans despite its somewhat menacing appearance here's actually a picture of an entire family of these creatures with one of them having quite a lot of babies on the inside anyway so quite a fascinating species because of its potential influence on one of the most iconic creatures from horror movies and definitely my favorite creature in the entire genre of horror sci-fi but knowing all of this chances are i'm still going to be really scared of the alien creature in the game alien isolation i'm probably still not going to be able to finish it anytime soon anyway on that note well that's pretty much all i wanted to mention in this video it's definitely a really fascinating marine animal and it's definitely an animal that i would like to
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