During the COVID-19 pandemic, the amount of sea lamprey in the Great Lakes surged because treatments were limited.

The U.S. and Canada collectively spend tens of millions of dollars per year to fight invasive, sport fish-attacking sea lamprey in the Great Lakes, a control effort that's spanned generations. But ...

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, ...

Lamprey Eel Maw The USGS is experimenting with synthetic pheromones that lead lampreys to areas where they can be trapped and removed...Invasive and parasitic Sea lamprey. (David Kenyon, 2013 State of ...

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission exhibit tent at the Northern Chautauqua Conservation Club Walleye Derby last weekend featured a live demonstration with sea lampreys. Photo courtesy of Forrest ...

One of the most significant invasive species threats to Great Lakes sportfish, sea lamprey, is on the decline after ...

PORT CLINTON – Since 1921, a parasitic, eel-like fish with a mouth that looks like something out of a horror movie has been sucking the life out of some of Lake Erie’s biggest fish. The sea lamprey — ...

Found in roughly 160-million-year-old rocks in North China, the Yanliao Biota is a diverse array of beautifully preserved fossils, including dinosaurs, pterosaurs and even early mammals. But it isn’t ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The U.S. and Canadian governments shut down their borders for 19 months during the COVID-19 pandemic, but it may have inadvertently opened the door for sea lamprey. The ...

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 ...

Scientists have described two lamprey fossils with "extensively toothed" mouths from the Jurassic period, shining a light on how this group has evolved into its modern forms since the Devonian. When ...