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TallyMan
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30 Sep 2008, 1:17 pm

This is bizarre and a little unsettling:

New Fish Species Eats And Replaces Your Tongue!


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30 Sep 2008, 1:23 pm

That's not news. Or at least, a previously known species is already known to do this.


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30 Sep 2008, 1:27 pm

Oh, that is just cool.


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30 Sep 2008, 1:39 pm

That is so gross, its got those little eyes :lol:
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01 Oct 2008, 11:27 pm

There is something simultaneously stomach-turning and completely awesome about this :D



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01 Oct 2008, 11:30 pm

Not quite as cool as the Babel fish, but still pretty neat.


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04 Oct 2008, 2:52 am

sorta reminds me of alien :S



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04 Oct 2008, 8:02 pm

Confused-Fish wrote:
sorta reminds me of alien :S

Read up on how moray eels have more than one set of jaws, thats more like alien 8)
This story is cool on too many levels though :o Theres still so much of the ocean that is left undiscovered.



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04 Oct 2008, 8:05 pm

Synth wrote:
Confused-Fish wrote:
sorta reminds me of alien :S

Read up on how moray eels have more than one set of jaws, thats more like alien 8)
This story is cool on too many levels though :o Theres still so much of the ocean that is left undiscovered.


Yes. There is lots of facts to chew your tongue over!


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04 Oct 2008, 9:11 pm

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Somehow, there are scientists in this world that are excited by the find, while the rest of us remain disgusted.


That says it all...