God’s Perfect Design — The Tongue Eating Louse!!
A Very Brief Discussion with Advanced Google Gemini
3 min readJul 5, 2024
Is there a parasite that kills the tongue of a fish and becomes it’s new tongue?
Yes, there is a parasite that does exactly that. It’s called the tongue-eating louse (Cymothoa exigua), a type of isopod.
Cymothoa exigua parasite
This fascinating, yet gruesome, creature enters a fish through its gills. The female louse attaches itself to the base of the fish’s tongue, severing the blood vessels and causing the tongue to fall off. It then attaches itself to the remaining stub, effectively becoming the fish’s new tongue.
Cymothoa exigua as fish’s tongue
