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7. Tongue Eating Parasite is the grossest

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Stunned fisherman finds tongue-eating parasite ‘like a blue-eyed alien’ staring out from inside the mouth of a 6lb fish

'Nothing could prepare' marine scientist Don Marx for when the fish's mouth opened

SEE the moment a shocked fisherman finds a "tongue-eating" undiscovered parasite living in the mouth of a fish, captured in a spine-chilling photograph.

The victim six-pound carpenter fish was pictured with its mouth closed after being caught by a fisherman before it opened its mouth to reveal a one-inch-long newly discovered species of tongue-eating louse parasite inside – in the place of the fish’s tongue

The seemingly blue-eyed parasite appeared to stare directly into the camera’s lens in a closeup shot.

The incredible images were taken off of Cape Agulhas, South Africa, by Marine Conservation Sciences student Don Marx, 27, from Cape Town, South Africa, using his iPhone 7.

This particular parasite enters the fish through its gills before moving onto the fish’s tongue, which it bites, cutting off the blood supply and causing the tongue to disintegrate. It then replaces the function of the tongue.

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