“What the hell are those," is the expression that came out of my mouth as bunches of eye-less miniature eel-like bodies wiggles their way across my feet as I walked through a stream impeded by a ...

The Australian brook lamprey (Mordacia praecox) is part of a group of primitive jawless fish. It’s up to 15 cm long, with rows of sharp teeth. Surprisingly, it doesn’t use these teeth to suck blood ...

A new weapon has been added to the Lake Ontario sea lamprey control efforts. State, federal and Canadian officials Tuesday dedicated a new sea lamprey barrier and trap on Orwell Brook, a tributary to ...

Eleven conservation organizations in California, Oregon, and Washington today petitioned the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service to list four species of lampreys as threatened or endangered under the ...

In the summer of 2022, Luke Carpenter-Bundhoo, a researcher with the Australian Rivers Institute at Griffith University, wasn’t primarily searching for interesting fish species. Instead, he was ...

The reproductive biology of lampreys is of special interest given the group has retained many developmental features reminiscent of the earliest vertebrates. Herein I report spawning behavior in the ...

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 ...

Scientists have confirmed the identity of an unusual, ancient and Endangered species of fish that is living in the coastal rivers of Queensland, about 1400 km north of where it was previously known to ...