(photo: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory)
Known locally as the Vampire of the Great Lakes, the sea lamprey is an ancient, parasitic fish that’s lasted for hundreds of years. Commonly mistaken for a type of eel, the lamprey is a basic vertebrate. They’re a primitive fish made up of cartilage and have multiple rows of sharp little teeth in a mouth that flattens into a disc so they can to latch onto their prey and suck the life out of it – like a vampire.
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