Just a week ago, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission faced a more dire staffing situation, as the USFWS informed directors ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The highly successful Sea Lamprey Control program, charged with eradicating the invasive fish from around ...

In the Great Lakes, where no such co-evolutionary link exists, sea lampreys act as predators, with each individual capable of killing up to 40 pounds of fish over their 12-18 month feeding period.

First the bad news: sea lampreys exceeded abundance targets in 2024 in all five Great Lakes. Now the silver linings: the findings weren't a surprise, the reason is well understood and the coming ...

Mammals use brown fat cells to produce heat in cold weather. The researchers tracked the temperatures of the fish tissue and found that it got hotter in the presence of other sea lampreys, ...

Vedius Pollio liked feeding people to lampreys. According to an urban legend that circulated in Imperial Rome, the emperor Augustus saved one of Pollio’s slaves from this grisly fate and punished ...

A single lamprey will eat about 40 pounds of fish during its lifetime and grow to about 2 feet long, according to the Great ...

Sea lampreys are an invasive, parasitic fish that entered the Great Lakes in the 1920s through shipping canals. Lampreys decimated fish populations before the U.S. and Canadian governments began ...

In this study, Sharma and colleagues examined the anatomy and development of joints in members of two early-branching vertebrate lineages: one species of jawless fish, sea lampreys, and two ...

With their eel-like bodies, vampire teeth and suction cup mouths, the main characters of a new documentary resemble something out of the “Dune” science fiction films. The sea lamprey nearly ...

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