<p>Professor Nico Smit specializes in aquatic parasitology at Northwestern University in South Africa. </p>

<p>Many years ago, while working on his Ph.D., Smit ran across something special in the coastal waters off South Africa: a tongue-replacing parasite.</p>

Professor Nico Smit specializes in aquatic parasitology at Northwestern University in South Africa. Many years ago, while working on his Ph.D., Smit ran across something special in the coastal waters off South Africa: a tongue-replacing parasite.

First person: Behind a scientist's discovery of a tongue-replacing parasite

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