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Science fiction meets science fact with this creature thought to have inspired H.R. Giger’s ALIEN movie creature. Phronima is a parasatoid that climbs inside a gelatanous salp or jelly, hollows out its insides, and makes it her new home where it will lay her eggs and raise her young as shown in this picture.