The pram bug is a transparent amphipod that lives nearly 13,500 feet below the ocean's surface in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. It hunts jellyfish and salps, burrows inside them while they are still alive, and systematically consumes them from the inside out. Once the host is completely hollowed out, the pram bug climbs into the empty translucent husk like it's wearing a suit of armor, using the corpse as a mobile nursery for its eggs. The bug grabs the rim of the barrel with its legs and propels the entire structure through the crushing darkness of the deep ocean, keeping its developing offspring safe inside this borrowed corpse home.
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The Parasite That Wears Its Host Like a SuitAdded:
Scientists just discovered a creature that doesn't just kill its host, it hollows it out from the inside and then wears its body like a mobile apartment while raising its babies. Meet the pram bug, a transparent amphipod about the size of your fist living nearly 13,500 ft below the ocean's surface in Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
This thing is absolutely terrifying.
It hunts down jellyfish and salps, those barrel-shaped gelatinous creatures floating through the deep, and burrows inside them while they're still alive.
Then it systematically eats them from the inside out, gutting the entire body while the host organism is conscious and helpless.
Once the host is completely hollowed out, the pram bug climbs into the empty translucent husk like it's putting on a suit of armor, but [music] here's where it gets wilder.
The bug doesn't just live in there, it uses the corpse as a mobile nursery for its eggs. It grabs the rim of the barrel with its own legs and propels the whole thing through the crushing darkness of the deep ocean, >> [music] >> keeping its developing offspring safe inside this borrowed corpse home.
Evolution designed the perfect parasite.
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