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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.
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.