For the past 150 years or so, scientists have theorized that the life cycle of the present-day lamprey mirrors the evolution of all fish – and thus of all vertebrates. Newly analyzed fossils, however, ...

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 ...

EAST LANSING - Sea lampreys are voracious blood-suckers. They'll latch onto any fish big enough to fit their mouths, which are swirling with rows of sharp teeth. Around 10 million pounds of dead trout ...

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 ...

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Excessive sea lamprey populations have been causing problems in the Great Lakes for many decades, first appearing in Lake Erie in 1921 and continuing to invade the Great Lakes into the mid 1900s.

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.

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 ...

The lamprey looks about as different from a human as you can imagine. This fish has an eel-like, finless body, bulging eyes, and a circle of frankly horrifying teeth in place of a jaw, which some ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If that’s true, why this spring is Trout Unlimited—the nation’s leading advocate for ...

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 ...