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 ...
Kenneth A. Rose, Sean Creekmore, Dubravko Justić, Peter Thomas, J. Kevin Craig, Rachael Miller Neilan, Lixia Wang, Md Saydur Rahman and David Kidwell Estuaries and Coasts Vol. 41, No. 1, Special ...
Wildlife officials in Texas found a fish with its tongue cut off and replaced by a crustacean parasite—all part of the circle of life. Reading time 2 minutes Wildlife officials in Texas recently ...
Up and down the beach at Ocean City, they washed ashore: dead fish, rotten and smelly, victims of what scientists believe was a sudden shift in the temperature of the ocean. More than a million ...
A Texas state park shared a seemingly unreal photo of a fish whose tongue was eaten by a parasite – and then the parasite replaced the organ altogether. “MARTIAN SPOTTED AT GALVESTON ISLAND STATE PARK ...
GALVESTON, Texas - Just in time for Halloween, Texas Parks and Wildlife spotted a really spooky-looking parasite inside a fish's mouth. It is truly the stuff of nightmares. "Inside this Atlantic ...
Officials with Galveston Island State Park recently came across a "spooky" discovery: a fish with a beady-eyed creature staring out from its mouth. The unsuspecting fish, an Atlantic Croaker, had ...