Have you ever wondered if fish have tongues? While a strange question, they have something slightly different. Read here to ...

In the course of studying wrasse skulls, an evolutionary biologist found a parasite hiding inside a fish’s mouth. And not only had the louse eaten the fish’s tongue – it effectively replaced it. The ...

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.

Researcher Kory Evans didn’t expect to find a tongue-eating parasite at work this week. Evans, an assistant professor of biosciences at Rice University in Houston, has spent the past few years ...

Fish evolution is so strange that it's given us species that can count, change color by "seeing" with its skin and even fish that can "sing." But sea robins in the family Triglidae are some of the ...

A fish that uses water as a sort of tongue to feed on land could shed light on how animals with backbones first invaded land, researchers say. One of the most pivotal moments in evolution occurred ...

Tongue-eating louse or ‘snapper-choking isopod’ are somewhat common among certain species of fish, like Atlantic croaker (as pictured), spotted seatrout, and a few species of snapper. (Texas Parks and ...

New research shows that fish and mammals chew differently. Fish use tongue muscles to thrust food backward, while mammals use tongue muscles to position food for grinding. The evolutionary divergence ...

A biologist made an unexpected discovery while researching fish heads—a bizarre parasitic crustacean that replaces the tongue of its host. Kory Evans from Rice University in Houston spotted the ...

A post shared online by Galveston Island State Park has taught some Texans about the existence of a common parasite that terrifyingly replaces the tongues of fish. The parasite, which the park ...