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The Strange Tongue-Eating Louse
A TED-Ed lesson on one of nature's weirdest parasites — the tongue-eating louse, a crustacean that lives inside a fish's mouth. Learn what it is, where it lives, and the surprising truth about fish 'tongues.'
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