Daily Mail

Woman is left baffled by an 'alien-like' tongue-eating parasite found inside a fish caught in Sydney Harbour

A woman who discovered an alien-like parasite hiding inside a dead fish has turned to the internet for help identifying the critter. Sydney woman Mel Spikes, who runs a fishing page on Facebook, ...
Daily Mail

In Spain, no one can hear you scream: Mediterranean fish under threat from gruesome 'Alien' parasite which eats their tongues then lives in their mouths

A gruesome ‘Alien-like’ parasite which eats the tongues of bream and then 'replaces' them in its victims mouths is spreading in the Mediterranean. Almost half the fish in some areas are infected with ...
The Sun

Blood-sucking ‘Alien’ parasite eats fish from inside out before exploding out of its body like the horror film

The blood-sucker is one of 24 new species of the killer parasite Cymothoa exigua which stays alive by feeding on its host from the inside. A blood-sucking parasite has been found to eat fish from the ...