There are around 380 species of tongue-eating isopods in existence. The isopod enters a fish's body through the gills, grabs onto the fish tongue with its legs , and feeds on it until the tongue ...

Isopods eat soil crust. Uploaded on 8/5/2024 (photo credit: Moshe Zaguri) Isopods (Hemilepistus reaumuri) are strange little creatures that look like lice or cockroaches – and aren’t bugs at ...

One giant isopod in Japan went for five years without eating a single bite before dying in 2014. That same year, Auten told Mental Floss that she attempted to feed her giant isopods every day, a ...

These isopods are protandrous hermaphrodites: They first mature into males, but then switch sexes to become females. The magic starts when more than one C. exigua lands in a given fish’s gills.

Ancient Giant Isopods Love Eating Alligators, New Study Finds They've been around for 200 million years and they've developed a taste for gator. By David Grossman Published: Apr 12, 2019 12:59 PM EDT ...

This discovery led me to wonder about the latest research about tongue-eating isopods. I came across a 2012 master’s thesis by Colt William Cook of the University of Texas, which confirms what ...

Not all monsters of the deep involve sharp teeth and bone crushing jaws. In a creepy video recorded one-and-a-quarter miles deep in the Gulf of Mexico, a gang of football-sized, flesh-eating isopod… ...