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Federal firings could wreak havoc on Great Lakes fishery - https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/03/federal-firings-could-wreak-havoc-on-great-lakes-fishery/ "Populations of sea #lampreys likely to run amok with US Fish and Wildlife Service cuts." #musk's ignorance will cause damage to US fishing industry in the region...

26-JUL-2024
#Lampreys possess a ‘jaw-dropping’ evolutionary origin
Invasive, blood-sucking fish ‘may hold the key to understanding where we came from’

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1052657 #science #evolution #vertebrates

'A surfeit of lampreys': '...[S]ea lampreys, which once slithered plentifully through the River Severn, were on the brink of extinction in the United Kingdom.' https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lamprey-pie-royal-coronation #foodhistory #lampreys #lampreypie #royalty #CoronationFood

#NewSpecies of #Lamprey #Fish Documented in #California. The #JawlessFish Play an Important Ecosystem Role https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/new-species-lamprey-fish-documented-california

#Lampreys in California (Lampetra spp. and Entosphenus spp.): Mitochondrial phylogenetic analysis reveals previously unrecognized lamprey diversity. By Grace Auringer et al. https://afspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nafm.10959

"Lampreys are boneless, jawless fish with #eel-like bodies that date back over 350 million years"

underwater photo of a lamprey - an eel-like fish

A surfeit of lampreys.

#lampreys

Two species of large ancient #lampreys found in China https://phys.org/news/2023-11-species-large-ancient-lampreys-china.html

The rise of #predation in #Jurassic lampreys https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-42251-0

"Their feeding apparatus surprisingly resembles that of the pouched lampreys, foreshadows the ancestral flesh-eating habit of living lampreys.

Living lampreys are ancestrally flesh-eating and most probably originated in the Southern Hemisphere of the Late Cretaceous."

artistic reconstruction of head of one of the newly found lampreys

Lampreys are part of an ancient superclass of jawless fish, called Agnatha. This group of fish evolved over 450 million years ago, making them one of the oldest living lineages in the world. Jawless fish are older than dinosaurs and even older than trees and have survived at least four mass extinction events.

#science #sciencefacts #lampreys #lamprey

Sea Lampreys, Long Reviled, Are Finally Getting Some Respect
Once dismissed as “ugly,” this sucker-mouthed fish plays an important role in its native ecosystem.
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/sea-lampreys-ecosystems #marine #lampreys #ecosystem

But hey, don't worry about the Cobalt-60 in "treated" #FukushimaWater! #TEPCO didn't even mention it until pressed...

Sterilizing effects of cobalt-60 and cesium-137 radiation on male sea lampreys

By: L.H. Hanson, 1990

"Male spawning-run sea lampreys Petromyzon marinus were exposed to various doses of cobalt-60 or cesium-137 radiation in an attempt to sterilize them for use in a program for controlling sea lampreys through the release of sterile males. Males captured and irradiated during the early part of the upstream migration were not effectively sterilized at the doses tested. After irradiation, the sea lampreys were more susceptible to fungal infections by Saprolegnia sp., and many died without attempting to spawn. Males captured and irradiated during the middle and late parts of the spawning migration were effectively sterilized at a dose of 2,000 rads. However, some radiation-induced mortality was observed in males captured and irradiated during the middle part of the spawning migration. Radiation is not as effective as the chemosterilant bisazir for sterilizing male sea #lampreys."

#FukushimaWater #NoDumping #WaterIsLife #StopTEPCO #NoNukes #TEPCOLies #OpTEPCO #PacificOcean #FukushimaAnniversary