TIL there is a meat loving sea fleas that casually nibble on your skin at the beach but in rare sever cases it can cause real injuries
shapesandstuff, IN WHAT CASES
NoSpiritAnimal, 
Look they hardly ever amputate
Jambone, The candiru swim up the urethra en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru_(fish)
muse, 
The piranha?
No!
The shark!
No!
... the piranha?
gregorum, what a wonderful time to never go to the beach again
jordanlund, 
There’s a species of fish that will do this too… except they have a taste for dead/dry skin. It’s supposed to very… exfoliating…
wahming, They’re VERY ticklish!
jordanlund, They look it!
exocrinous, Didn’t iCarly have an episode about this?
Tikiporch, They starve the fish to get them to eat your dead skin. CDC really buried the lead there.
tunetardis, I will never again question the need for that extra protective lining around the gonads in a swimsuit.
littlebluespark, 
One can only hope that cases of severing are as rare as this post title would have us believe. 😶
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