GALVESTON, Texas — We know it is the Halloween season but talk about creepy. Texas Parks and Wildlife Department shared a spooky photo with a look inside the mouth of a fish caught at Galveston Island ...

You’ve heard about a cat getting your tongue, but how about a tongue-eating louse? Earlier this week, officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department took a photo of a strange parasite ...

A parasitic crustacean living in the mouth of an Atlantic croaker after eating its tongue. Photo: Galveston Island State Park-Texas Parks and Wildlife/Facebook Wildlife officials in Texas recently ...

Officials at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department have discovered a strange parasite that eats a fish’s tongue and takes its place. In a first-of-its-kind discovery, the officials found that the ...

Parasites that eat fish tongues and take their place in the mouth have been found in a batch of seabream arriving at a port in the U.K. The parasites, Cymothoa exigua, were first spotted in the ...

Meet the tongue-eating isopod, Cymothoa exigua. This marine parasite feasts on a fish's tongue and then becomes its tongue. You'll never eat seafood again. National Corporate funding for NOVA is ...

It's the stuff of nightmares, or science fiction: a parasite that wants to get inside an animal's mouth, where it attacks — and replaces — the tongue. That's the incredibly specific, terribly icky job ...

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