Try and Avoid these
Photo Via the BBC
The fish devouring Isopod has been known to burrow into a fishes tongue, devour it, and then just chill there for a while. We think there’s a distinct possiblity Eli Roth will make a film about this, with humans as the carriers, but for now any fish should just avoid the Jersey Shore. No, not that Jersey Shore, the one off the coast of England.
Have no fear Snooks and the rest of them will be fine.
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gabyguillotine
05.06.2010
holy crap. that's awesome
Ansel Taft
05.18.2010
WTFuckness? That thing scares the carp out of me. Pun intended.
donzaloog
06.14.2010
I would actually prefer if this happened to the cast of Jersey Shore. I would tune in to watch that.
Spike
06.20.2010
My cousin got one of those isopod in his mouth. Sucker ate his tongue. The family doesn't mind though, because cousin Rick was a non-stop motor mouth.
bbb
06.24.2010
those things get huge and are usually found on the ocean floor.
Chris
07.11.2010
That's the stuff of nightmares!!!
sogard
08.02.2010
i didn't knew that a fish has human upper theeth
sigh
11.22.2010
pacu have human like teeth if i recall… they eat nuts and things
Ian
04.12.2011
This is BS, the fish is a common tautog fish, and this fish has the closest representation of human teeth www.chesapeake-angler.com/CPetrocci_gnarly… , the isotope is common, and scared of a farts shadow (not Dangerous). This whole article, as much as you all want it to be real, is Faker the the chest of Dolly Parton!
Pricescout24
07.05.2011
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jeff mano
08.11.2011
Ian,
You are correct that this is a fairly common creature. It is a variety of isopod, not an isotope, which are variant atoms of a given chemical element. You are wrong about it being a fake story. This variety, cymothoa exigua, does in fact feed off the fishes tongue until it atrophies and fall off. It then attaches itself to the remaining nub and in effect, becomes the fishes new tongue. I don't know if the pic is faked, because the isopod mainly attacks varieties of snappers. I'm not sure if it has expanded it's range of species that it attacks, but that is not uncommon behavior for many parasites. It is not dangerous to people, except to those that may freak out and have a heart attack upon seeing it, because it is pretty damn gross, and they can get astonishingly large, because snappers get pretty big.
Psybertron Asks
07.16.2010
[...] says it’s a photo from the BBC, (no link) but it’s photo-shopped surely ? Is it my imagination but isn’t that the roof of a human mouth in there with a row of [...]
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