Every once in a while, nature reveals something that looks like it came straight out of a horror movie. State park workers in Texas recently revealed an image of a fish with a living parasite in its ...

A Texas state park shared a seemingly unreal photo of a fish whose tongue was eaten by a parasite – and then the parasite replaced the organ altogether. “MARTIAN SPOTTED AT GALVESTON ISLAND STATE PARK ...

Officials with Galveston Island State Park recently came across a "spooky" discovery: a fish with a beady-eyed creature staring out from its mouth. The unsuspecting fish, an Atlantic Croaker, had ...

A post shared online by Galveston Island State Park has taught some Texans about the existence of a common parasite that terrifyingly replaces the tongues of fish. The parasite, which the park ...

It sounds like something from a horror flick. A small, parasitic creature swims into the mouth of a fish and attaches itself to the organism’s tongue — yes, fish have tongues — causing it to slowly ...

When scientists recently X-rayed a fish's head, they found a gruesome stowaway: A "vampire" crustacean had devoured, then replaced, its host's tongue. The buglike isopod, also called a tongue biter or ...

A Texas state park shared a seemingly unreal photo of a fish whose tongue was eaten by a parasite – and then the parasite replaced the organ altogether. “MARTIAN SPOTTED AT GALVESTON ISLAND STATE PARK ...

In the course of studying wrasse skulls, an evolutionary biologist found a parasite hiding inside a fish’s mouth. And not only had the louse eaten the fish’s tongue – it effectively replaced it. 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 ...

Researcher Kory Evans didn’t expect to find a tongue-eating parasite at work this week. Evans, an assistant professor of biosciences at Rice University in Houston, has spent the past few years ...

Grusome photos of a blood-thirsty parasite living in the mouth of a fish having devoured its host’s tongue have surfaced online. Posted to social media by a scientist this week, the X-ray scans show ...