Shocking new footage shows a pair of bloodsucking parasites latched onto the head of a deep-sea rattail fish. In the video, which the Schmidt Ocean Institute shared in a Facebook post, two ...

Creepy duo spotted clinging to rattail fish The footage was shared by Schmidt Ocean Institute on Facebook. It captured two Lophoura szidati copepods latched onto a rattail fish's head. Long egg ...

The rattail fish, belonging to the genus Macrourus, was spotted at a depth of 1,604 feet (489 meters) near the remote volcanic islets of the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean.

These parasites, equipped with egg sacs, give the fish an unusual appearance with what looks like tufts. A rattail fish filmed near the South Sandwich Islands with parasites attached to its head.

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A strange video from the South Atlantic Ocean showed parasites on a deep-sea fish. These parasites, Lophoura szidati copepods, looked like they had pigtails. They clung to the head of a rattail ...

or rattail fish, which cruise at overlapping depths with black cod. They could also process the aesthetically intimidating fish, which often landed with its innards ballooning out of its mouth ...