Paleontologists in China have unearthed the 160-million-year-old fossilized remains of two new lamprey species. Their discovery—published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications—helps fill a gap ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A reconstruction of the biting structures of two newfound lamprey species. Scientists in China have unearthed two superbly ...

Duluth, Minn. — Invasive, parasitic sea lampreys continue to hunt and kill Lake Superior fish above the levels biologists would like to see, especially after the COVID-19 pandemic caused parts of two ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Zoo has welcomed a new group of Pacific lamprey in an effort to restore the population of one of the Pacific Northwest’s oldest species. Although the zoo has had ...

With terrifyingly sharp teeth arranged around a circular mouth, lampreys look about as primitive a vertebrate as you could imagine. But a new study finds that the animals have a surprising similarity ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 15—With their eel-like bodies, vampire teeth and suction cup mouths, the main characters of a new documentary resemble ...

Fossilized lampreys from the Jurassic period have surprised a team of paleontologists by their size and well-preserved feeding structures, indicating the creepy fish were already predatory 160 million ...

The sympathetic nervous system was thought to have evolved with jawed vertebrates. But lampreys—jawless, parasitic fish that suck out the blood of their hosts—have a simple one, per recent research.

Chalk it up to another unfortunate side effect of the COVID-19 pandemic: Blood-sucking lampreys are back. Sea lampreys are parasitic fish from the northern Atlantic and Baltic, western Mediterranean ...

More than 60 years after invasive sea lamprey began decimating Lake Superior lake trout, restoration efforts have successfully returned this native freshwater fish to the lake. Both a keystone species ...

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Before you cannonball into that refreshing pool, look before you leap. It could just be filled to the brim with blood-sucking lampreys. And they’re hungry. How would they feed on you? How could you ...