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Insect parasite replaces fish’s tongue — and it all works

The tongue-eating louse is the only known life form to completely replace an organ in another animal. The takehome point is that devolution (shedding independent characteristics in order to survive, perhaps symbiotically) leads the history of life forms down some strange paths.

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