Newsweek

Infestation of Tongue-Eating Parasites Discovered in Fish Shipment

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 ...
AOL

Fish Found With Parasite That Eats Its Tongue And Then Becomes Its Tongue

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 ...
PBS

The Tongue-Eating Parasite

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 ...
The State

‘Tongue-eaters’ found inside mouths of fish in Mexico turn out to be new species

Anglers and scientists found “tongue-eaters” parasites in the mouths of fish off Mexico and discovered a new species, a study said. Photo shared by Mayra Ixchel Grano‑Maldonado Off the western coast ...
KUOW

First person: Behind a scientist's discovery of a tongue-replacing parasite

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 ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

First person: Behind a scientist's discovery of a tongue-replacing parasite

Professor Nico Smit specializes in aquatic parasitology at Northwestern University in South Africa. Many years ago, while working on his Ph.D.,... First person: Behind a scientist's discovery of a ...