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Horrifying Images Reveal Bizarre Parasite That Replaces Tongue of Its Fish Host and Feeds on Blood – Newsweek
The parasite is a type of isopod—an ancient order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives.
A biologist made an unexpected discovery while researching fish headsa bizarre parasitic crustacean that replaces the tongue of its host.
Kory Evans from Rice University in Houston spotted the strange parasite in an image of the skull of a herring calea species of ray-finned fish endemic to the waters off Australia.
Evans was scanning the fish as part of an ongoing project to study the 3D skull shape of wrassesa group of nearly 500 marine fish speciesusing a technique known as micro-computed t…
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