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 ...

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.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In any relationship, there's usually one partner that does the heavy lifting. In the case of one ...

When scientists recently X-rayed a fish's head, they found a gruesome stowaway: A "vampire" crustacean had devoured, then replaced, its host's tongue. The buglike isopod, also called a tongue biter or ...