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 ...
The Sun

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

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 ...
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, ...
The Independent

The alien fish invading India’s rivers and lakes

From the time he was about 10, British fisheries scientist Adrian Pinder hoped he could travel to India one day to catch the fish of his dreams. Growing up reading angling magazines in the UK, he was ...
The Malta Independent

A deluge of alien fish species in Maltese waters

The arrival and establishment of new species - the so-called non-indigenous, exotic or alien species, is an unrelenting phenomenon which is picking up pace even further due to further globalisation in ...