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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GALVESTON, Texas - Just in time for Halloween, Texas Parks and Wildlife spotted a really spooky-looking parasite inside a fish's mouth. It is truly the stuff of nightmares. "Inside this Atlantic ...

The fish needs to look after the parasite because if the parasite disappear, then the fish don’t have a tongue anymore and then the fish is in trouble. CHAKRABARTI: So Professor Smit remembers that ...

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 ...