• By Lauren Davis
    Sep 11, 2009 2:40 PM 69,270
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    Tongue-Eating Parasites Attack Fish Near Normandy

    Weaver fish off the Jersey coast have fallen prey to a horrific parasite: an isopod that devours the fish's tongue and then replaces it with itself. Fortunately, it doesn't eat human tongues, though it will bite. [Image via Warren Ellis]


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