Eels are freshwater fish and can survive for a time in damp places out of water. There is a small chance it might be the much rarer river lamprey, which has circular openings along either side ...

This eel-like creature fastens itself to fish and sucks their blood. Within the past 25 years it has invaded Lake Huron and Lake Michigan and destroyed their teeming population of trout ...

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 ...

"[Then I realised] that's not an eel, that's a lamprey. What's that doing here?" The species was first identified in the ...

Although the £4.5m project was announced in 2015, work was delayed because nothing could be done during the spawning season of the European protected lamprey eel. A new home also had to be built ...