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I feel sorry for fish who get this nasty bugger in their mouths.

A gross creature which gobbles up a fish’s tongue and then replaces it with its own body has been found in Britain for the first time. [...] The 3.5cm creature had grabbed onto the fish’s tongue and slowly ate away at it until only a stub was left. It then latched onto the stub and became the fish’s “replacement tongue”.

The interesting part of the write up is that the creature is normally found off the coast of California. Specimens usually have a knack for evolving. 10 – 20 years down the road are we going to have to worry about things like this replacing our own tongues? Food will never taste the same.

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