A woman named Zoe Butler who hails from the United Kingdom, opened a can of Princess Tuna Chunks to find this MENACING SLUG MONSTER staring back at her with baleful black eyes. “Can you tell me what this is?” she tweeted, with a pic. “Nearly fed this to my children!!” I’ll tell you what it’s NOT: Of this earth. Or this earthly realm. Some folks are suggesting that it’s a shrimp head or severed crab head. I’m going with inter-dimensional sludge demon come to pillage our towns and plunder our women.
UPDATE: Turns out it’s THIS
Explains HappyPlace:
What we’re dealing with here is a parasitic crustacean found in many fish called a Cymothoa exigua, or “tongue-eating louse.”
But don’t worry, that name isn’t strictly accurate. It doesn’t actually eat the tongue of the fish it feeds off of. It more so destroys the tongue and then lives in the fish’s mouth as a sort-of replacement tongue. Here, I’ll let Wikipedia explain because blech!
“Cymothoa exigua extracts blood through the claws on its front, causing the tongue to atrophy from lack of blood. The parasite then replaces the fish’s tongue by attaching its own body to the muscles of the tongue stub. The fish is able to use the parasite just like a normal tongue. It appears that the parasite does not cause any other damage to the host fish.”
This tiny abomination lives inside the fish’s mouth, acting as an ersatz tongue, feeding off its host’s blood and/or mucus.
According to the Natural History Museum’s Stuart Hine, the Cymothoa exigua tends to target species of fish much smaller than tuna, so this specimen was probably living inside the mouth of a fish that the tuna had eaten shortly before it was pulled from the ocean, chopped up and jammed into a can that was almost fed to the children of Zoe Butler.
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