Tongue-Eating Parasites

By Dr. M, on March 1st, 2013 One comment   Pictures and Movies

A nice little animation from my favorite television program, PBS’s NOVA

1 comment to Tongue-Eating Parasites

• Jason R

  March 1, 2013 at 14:18 · Reply

  I am as squicked out by tongue isopods as anyone else. Still, the Poindexter in me can’t help pointing out that a fish’s tongue (basihyal) and a mammalian tongue are not homologous structures.