Beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic, scientists have uncovered a chilling new threat lurking in the deep. Parasitic ...

Filmed by the Schmidt Ocean Institute, the video reveals a deep-sea rattail fish with two parasites clinging to either side ...

Scientists on an expedition to the South Sandwich Islands near Antarctica have recorded horrifying videos of parasitic ...

In haunting footage captured about 1,604 feet (489 meters) under the sea, cameras captured the tubular crustaceans latched ...

A recent video from the ocean’s depths has stunned even seasoned scientists — showing two parasites firmly attached to a fish’s head, looking oddly like pig tails.

A recent video from the South Atlantic Ocean captured bizarre, pigtail-like parasites clinging to a deep-sea rattail fish at 1,604 feet. These Lophoura szidati copepods burrow into the fish ...

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and might explain the ecological success of the genus in situations when food becomes limiting for other groups of copepods. BIGELOW, H. B. 1926. Plankton of the offshore waters of the Gulf of Maine.

The copepods are a species called Lophoura szidati, and are latched onto the head of a rattail fish from the genus Macrourus, representatives wrote in the Facebook post.