There's a hangry little new creature on Doctor Whoand Twitter is into it.

Dubbed a Pting, the small but fierce newcomer appeared on Sunday in "The Tsuranga Conundrum," the fifth episode of Series 11, which stars Jodie Whittaker as the 13th Doctor.

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Without spoiling too much, the Doctor and her crew found the creature somewhere in the galaxy, hanging out on a spaceship.It's super cute, but is poisonous to touch, and though non-carnivorous, it will feed off any kind of non-organic material it can find.

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The Pting's rampant insatiability was something that struck a chord with some on Twitter.

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Sure, it's a little vicious, but it's truly cute, and a damn sight less terrifying than the Weeping Angels. Folks on Twitter ran with their own interpretations of the Pting, and where they'd seen it before.

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