February 27th, 2013 at 6:31PM

jtotheizzoe:

Watch Your Tongue!

Anna Rothschild introduces you the hermaphroditic parasitic crustacean that infects fish, sucks their blood, becomes a prosthetic tongue, feeding on fish mucus …  

That will surely stoke your hunger for more parasites, right? Be sure to check out one of the more weird and terrifying blogs I’ve run across lately: Parasite of the Day.

(by NOVA’s Gross Science, from PBS)

UGH UGH UGH WE JUST LEARNED ABOUT THESE IN MARINE BIO THAT CLASS KEEPS TEACHING ME THINGS I DON’T WANT TO KNOW

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