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Professor of Wildlife Epidemiology & Deputy Director of Science, Zoological Society of London

This tongue-eating louse has parasitised its host, a small fish. The parasite makes the fish’s tongue fall off, then replaces the tongue with its own body. ijimino / shutterstock

March 10, 2025

Parasites are ecological dark matter – and they need protecting

Timothy Brown, University of Leeds; Andrew Cunningham, Zoological Society of London, and Simon Goodman, University of Leeds

Save the pandas, sure, but what about the worms in their guts?

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