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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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