Sea lamprey were gathered by commercial fishing operations in Lake Superior and Lake Huron, actively attached to a host. Scientists placed individual siscowets or leans into a tank with one sea ...

As a Pacific lamprey suctioned itself onto the side of a small fish tank, its pointy teeth were on full display. The rest of the eel-like fish wriggled about in the water. On the other side of the ...

Lampreys swimming in a tank at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole. MBL scientist Jennifer Morgan and colleagues use lamprey as a model system to study spinal cord regeneration. These ...

More than 100 sea lamprey cling to a tank at the fish-sorting facility at Milford Dam. As of Monday, more than 5,000 lamprey had been counted at the dam. Credit: Maine Department of Marine Resources ...

Lamprey have been around for more than 450 million years before dinosaurs roamed the earth. The eel-like fish survived ice ages and heat waves. Now, they aren’t doing well, and scientists don’t know ...

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 ...

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