I know Derren Tweeted this but if you haven’t got Twitter you really shouldn’t see this!
This, a horrible looking sea-dwelling parasite attacks fish, burrows into it, and then devours its tongue.
Errrrrrrrrrgh!
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Arghhh!! Kill it with fire!!
It’s…smiling at me.
Tasty :-/
Yuk yuk yuk yuk omg that’s horrid.derren I’m comming to c u enigma Edinburgh you better not have that horrid beastie there.haha luv ya
Just wait for the horror movie
I know! What a great world we have around us
Imagine finding one of those in your fish & chips.
OMG! It’s just like the Alien in ,well, Alien! Creepy *shivers*. xx
Awww.. it’s so sweet! What, fish can’t have pets too?
Remember the film ‘Alien’? Its alive..
I saw that this morning when I was having breakfast. Well I stopped eating… Urgh
More importantly, if you haven’t got a Twitter account, then get one!
That’s weird, really weird. Yóu’d think it would be a coincedence if you’d run into two of those … Now .. why does the fish have a tongue … (did not know it had a tongue .. or better said .. never wondere about fishes that much … about whether they have a tongue .. I never studied them from upclose … It must suffer from this parasite I’d say … it probably needs to eat more than before e.g.? And the feeling of that thing in your mouth? A fish does not want it in its mouth I guess ..
I still wonder whether this is really true … such a big ‘parasite’… permanently in a fish mouth …
and as it is coming from Brown .. apparently … well, then you may keep wondering about that …… on and on ….
This is a large parasitic isopod (a relative of the louse) that has evolved a rather hideous method for survival in its host: It gets into the fish’s mouth and then devours its tongue. It then attaches itself at the back of the fish’s throat where it presumably feeds of whatever the fish normally eats. The really bizarre part is that the fish doesn’t seem to suffer any ill effects other than the loss of its tongue. I don’t see what’s weird about it, if everybody had one in their mouth, would it be weird? Or would not having one be weird?
That really was not what I expected to see looking at the blog… thanks for that….
Oh, I can think of a couple of people who deserve to have their tounges eaten… hmmm, the possibilities are endless…
Maw-haw etc…
thats disgusting i bet Alien would have thought he was right at home if he saw this lol but euggg thats just wronge
I know the whole concept of a parasite is disgusting and all, but this little dude is strangely cute…
What isn’t said upthread is that the little parasite acts as a surrogate tongue for the fish and lives off fish mouth mucus. The fish doesn’t seem to suffer anything more than the loss of its tongue. Nature is so fucking brilliant.
Oi, i can only say mjumm-ey…
I initialy saw this and thought WTF. But then I realised that because fises spend all that time in dirty water it is more predictible that stuff like that will happen in nature. I Googled around and saw a giant one, as big as someones foot.
Has anyone else noticed that that fish has HUMAN TEETH?
I don’t believe it’s real.
@Rachel Coldbreah I was just admiring that upper set there. Hmmmm. They’re in better nick than mine!
Boy, am I glad I’m a veggie!
This is what Derren looks like when he is inside our brains!!!
Last time I read the blog at lunchtime….. BLURGH!
here’s another one!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4200000/newsid_4209000/4209004.stm
I can do that.
Euuugh… eviiiil looking thing !
Aww… well, I think it’s quite cute, with the litle smile ^_^
But I dont fancy ever meeting one. Or a fish with teeth… I didn’t think fish had teeth, not Im confused. Im going to do some reading up.
@JayKay
Yay for veggies!
That little thing looks quite pleased with itself though doesn’t it?
Has a certain smugness about it, like an illusionist that’s managed to drive people mad and make them angry with very little effort, haha.
Peace People!
The post made me hunt for this clip. There are loads for frog/angler fish on the site, but I thought this was particularly odd and cute. Woman on a mission – apparently it’s her husband she’s dragging behind her, haha! When d’you think these guys will come crawling out of the water to join us then?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8VyOuJ8Uak
@Mr Woolf – yep, I’m a total softy. I rescue drowning midgies from the loo. Been a veggie since I left home and shook the nagging parents, ‘You’ll die if you don’t eat meat’. Strangely, 23 years on, I’m still around. It’s the power of the beans. Prrrp! Oops, pardon me.
EEEWWWWW!!! THAT’S GROSS!…..Let’s read some more about it.
Oh, by the way…I have a feeling everyone’s going to have nightmares about this thing. Thanks a lot, Derren!
I feel sick..
@ JayKay
Lol, wow, uncanny.
It’ almost like I’m chatting to myself here, not that there’s anything unusal about that for me, haha.
The worst bit with flies and moths etc. is when they do back stroke in liquid, then their wings get stuck together. It’s a mini operation to get them seperated again to ensure they don’t end up stuck together perminently. They seem grateful though.
I haven’t been veggie for 23 years though… lost count of how long actually, good few years though and yeah the funny one’s “You need your protein!”.
Errr, yeah…. there’s many more sources of that.
Bramely apple sausages and the other veggie one’s are well nummy, didn’t really like the meat one’s at all.
Anyway, I’m sure all the peeps here just love reading about veggies, lol.
Peace People!
@Mr Woolf – yeh, I’m sure they are loving it, haha! But after this fish-beastie photie, you know you’ll all be searching amongst the flakey white flesh of your next serving of fish! Mind you, I’ve found similar in a few cabbages!
As for the midgies, a bit of loo roll will help. The fly will be soaked up with the water onto it and you just blow on its wee wings till they dry out and you leave it on the sill till it flies off. Even the ones that look well drowned usually survive.
I hope Derren has sonic traps for his mice by the way! No point in killing them them messily – just drive them out with the noise. You can’t hear it, but they can. Worked on my mice in my bruv’s attic.
‘Them them’ and ‘my mice in my bruv’s attic’?! You can tell I was interrupted mid Ronnie Corbett flow…
Yeh, I’m the Pied Piper of North London. I played my pipes and a hundred and thirty of my very own mice followed me all the way to Dublin and camped out in my brother’s loft!
@ JayKay
Yep, toilet paper does catch them well.
Had one the other week that had obviously had enough.
It sat on the side of my cup looking mornful, then just as I said “don’t you d..” it threw itself into my luke-warm coffee”.
Looked dead after finally fishing it out, GF was convinced it was a waste of time trying anything (she can be so negative sometimes, haha). A minute or two ‘playing’ with it and it woke up!
It refused the offer of counselling, walked around for a while thinking, then flew off.
Haha
Needless to say…. I made myself another drink
Peace People!
Re: Mice
I did tell him he should consider a ‘nice’ way.
Suggested he gave them five of this Wednesday’s lotto numbers, so they could go and live in a big cheesy mansion out in the country.
I don’t believe he took me seriously (if he even noticed the replied tweet)
Peace people!
@ Mr Woolf – Hahahaha!
Is it just me or does it look really happy with itself?
Why its tongue?? And why does it attach itself not untill afterwards to the back of its throat .. The other pic on the site shows a creature that does not attach itself but just is in its mouth .. filling it almost completely …
Very small parasites .. we’ve heard of those .. but those enormous ones? Imagine such a thing in your own mouth … The tongue might try to push it out or such perhaps .. (if it has a tongue that is … still did not check that …) … maybe the parasite sees it as an enemy and attacks it … and sees the mouth as a nice cave … its new host ..
Babies do that too you know ….
@Ms G – ‘Babies do that too you know’
Ahahaha! I like that.
urgh. i almost puked at that.
Make a really cool pet…
Ugh, that’s disgusting!!
It does look like it’s sitting pretty for the camera though……
LC x
Not only does the fish have teeth, but the parasite has the face of Ken Livingstone.
Weirdest picture I’ve seen in weeks.
Ken Livingstone barged his way onto a Jubilee line train I was on at rush hour one day. I was nearly flattened by a mobster in a big black coat and I turned to give him my thoughts on his rude manner to fine it was old fish-eyes Livingstone with not so much as a flickering of recognition that he’d mown down a minion. Or is it mowed? Too tired to Google it. I didn’t let him off with anything though; I gave him the evils till I got off.
Oh my god is it actually smiling at us!!? Horrible thing!
Take of and nuke it from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
Was just tucking into some really nice madiera cake and opened that up!! How gross…. think I will eat my cake after my tea now! Even more weird it looks like the thing from Dan Browns Deception Point novel…. OK i probably have a really wierd imagination now!!
Does anyone have the phone number of the fishes dental practitioner…I want me some of those fishy-teeth!
i work as a chef and i can remember finding one of these inside of a fish whilst cleaning it for preperation , i nearly shit my kegs , i screamed like a girl and ran away
lmao
I think that fish is a Sheepshead drum, tasty and a double bonus for the fisherman there, getting an appetizer and meal all in one fish :-0
that is just plain disgusting….yuck!!!!…urrgghhh…
If fish had hands, they would pull it out, but they dont so they have no choice but to deal with it.