Some people call them "eels", but they have nothing in common with anguillid ... to as "Agnthans", meaning literally "without jaws". Instead, the adult lamprey has "cusps" in its mouth, hardened tooth ...

DESCRIPTION: Pacific lamprey are slender, eel-like fish that are dark blue or brown in color and grow to about 30 inches long. They have lateral eyes, lack paired fins, and have no scales. Adult ...

Cuts to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could unintentionally thwart efforts to control populations of the destructive sea ...

The Great Lakes sea lamprey control program faces mass layoffs, risking the health of the largest freshwater ecosystem.

“This ladder will have openings through its baffles (vertical walls) to give lamprey a more direct path upstream to spawn ... (and) improve overall passage for our eel-like fish ...

eel-shaped fish. The lamprey has a disc-shaped mouth filled with sharp teeth that it uses to suction to the side of a fish. Its scientific name is Petromyzon marinus, Latin for "sucker of stone ...

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 ...

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 ...