DESCRIPTION: Pacific lamprey are slender, eel-like fish that are dark blue or brown in color and grow to about 30 inches long. They have lateral eyes, lack paired fins, and have no scales. Adult ...

This eel-like creature fastens itself to fish and sucks their blood. Within the past 25 years it has invaded Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and destroyed their teeming population of trout ...

Federal cuts could allow over 1 million lamprey to survive, consuming nearly 5 million pounds of fish and resulting in $105 ...

Unfortunately, these are only early figures, and the death count is expected to rise as the investigation continues. Experts ...

Older than the dinosaurs, Pacific lamprey look like eels, but are actually a prehistoric fish with a cartilaginous skeleton ...

For several years, the presence of Least Brook lamprey eels (Lampetra aepyptera), a sensitive species of non-parasitic freshwater lamprey, has been casually observed in tributary streams surrounding ...

The Trump administration has reversed a purge of federal workers tasked with combatting one of the Great Lakes’ most damaging ...

We would be better off with lampreys running the country,’ quipped one Facebook user in response to a Republican ...

Last month's federal staffing cuts and hiring freezes threatened the sea lamprey control program. Now, it has permission to ...

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