These freaks of nature that are neither fish, worm nor eel have survived for 360 million years, have long snake-like bodies and a sucker mouth adorned with sharp teeth worthy of any Hollywood sci-fi movie. Think Alien.
Many of the parasites feed by sucking the blood of fish, attaching to their prey with a suction disk [...]

I used to think that the C%26ocirc;te d’Azur was one long private beach where you had to wrestle with naked Germans for the right to lay your towel out on three square inches of pebbles. The sea, I imagined, was warm fish soup [...]