Download A Lamprey Eel Images. The sea lamprey is a horrifying creature, but does it attack humans? The sea lamprey—an ancient atlantic fish that wreaked havoc on the great lakes—may be america's first destructive invasive the rasping mouth of the sea lamprey, an infamous great lakes invader.
Multiply that times 22,000 lamprey eels found in just 1 river and you have a lot of dead fish.
From middle english laumprei, borrowed from old french lampreie (modern french lamproie), from medieval latin lampreda, possibly alteration of late latin lampetra (lamprey), whose further origin is unknown, though is traditionally thought to be a combination of lambō (i lick, lap) + petra. The common name lamprey is probably derived from latin lampetra, which may mean stone licker. Here's a look at this monster of nightmares. The above text is excerpted from the wikipedia article lamprey, which has been released under the gnu free documentation license.
