This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated. The old monsters were getting kind of boring.” So far, the reaction to the creepy creature can be summed by the person who remarked, “Thanks for the new nightmare material. The parasite then survives in the fish’s mouth by feeding on the host animal’s mucus ― the only known example of a parasite replacing an organ of its host.Īlthough the animal’s modus operandi could be the stuff of nightmares, officials said in the Facebook post below that the tongue-eating louse “does not kill the fish or affect humans.” The tongue-eating louse attaches itself to the fish’s mouth and then replaces the tongue, according to the Houston Chronicle. Almost-locked set analysis can be extended to grids, where it forms the basis for all finned fish and sashimi, and also to what I am calling. Officials jokingly suggested on Facebook that the creature was a Martian before offering the true science surrounding the crustacean. The Sudoku Assistant uses several techniques to solve a Sudoku puzzle: cross-hatch scanning, row/column range checking, subset elimination, grid analysis,and what Im calling 3D Medusa analysis, including bent naked subsets, almost-locked set analysis. The fish containing the parasite was found at Galveston Island State Park. You’ve heard about a cat getting your tongue, but how about a tongue-eating louse?Įarlier this week, officials with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department took a photo of a strange parasite resembling a pill bug that is also known as the snapper-choking isopod, according to San Antonio ABC affiliate KSAT.