Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Texas state park shared a seemingly unreal photo of a fish whose tongue was eaten by a parasite – and then the parasite replaced ...

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 ...

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 ...

Get a closer look at the blood-sucking parasite that eats, and then replaces, a fish's tongue without it knowing. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, science and robots.