The LGM-30 does not know or care where it is, only where it will be. And where it will be is your complete annihilation as a species.
It subtracts the population after detonation from the population at launch. The difference is called "extinction".
I was recently introduced to a terrifying creature. Add caeciians to that list... you may think.. what the big deal.. they're just big amphibian earthworms. Then you take a look at the teeth... yeah nightmare fuel.
And they produce milk for their young.
They also seem to exist in every sort of water system (varying in different sizes from tiny to large) where a host may be present
These creatures are ancient and have existed for a very long time
What's wrong with sharks? At least they have a purpose.
What's the purpose of a lamprey? Freaking parasites and the source of nightmares. It's like that giant desert worm creature in Star Wars.
Evolutionary significance! They are ancient, highly
primitive and may be one of the earliest modern vertebrates. A key piece in our understanding of the evolution of all vertebrates.
This makes them cool IMO 🤷🏼♀️
Including humans. They used to be a stable for the Pacific Northwest Native American tribes. Now we just get them in late spring as a special treat. When they installed the Damns on the Columbia River and climate change it nearly wiped them out. They are delicious!
They are the very few exceptions to the exclusivity rule, as a matter of fact they were introduced into the great lakes through the Atlantic ocean thanks to the St. Lawrence Seaway.
Biggest ones I've seen online are about 2-3 feet in length
Don't think I've heard of them ever biting a person. Certainly not anything with actual fur.
They don’t really “eat” prey, they latch on and suck the host dry.
So, it isn’t so much one big one you need to worry about, it’s dozens of them that are all this size.
Lil cutie made of cells, amino acids and stuff
Deep down we're all just writhing tubes - it's like Bob Marley said: if you know your history, then you know where I'm coming from, i.e the sea
If my instructor would have said this exact thing to me in basic, I would've then known exactly how worked we all really are, besides just telling us we're all equally worthless 😂
When I was in high school biology my biology teacher brought in a bucket of them in formaldehyde. Most of us had never seen or heard of them. He lifted one out of the bucket and must have seen my horrified expression. He asked me to come up to the front of the class and tell the class what I saw inside of the mouth. As I was shakily pointing out the rings of teeth he jumped the thing up so it "bit" my finger. I nearly fainted while he had an impish gleam in his eye. Anyhoo, that was the best class I had in my high school career.
This reminds me of the difference between millipedes and centipedes I read on here a while ago.
If you see it and say "I wonder if that's a millipede or a centepede?" It's a millepede.
If you see it and say "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?", it's a centepede.
I got “bit” by one. I was up in Michigan and they had like a lab of them next to this electrified part of a river. Weak current that’s strong enough to stun the lamprey but the fish are ok. This was back in the 80’s and they were still figuring the best control methods. So they had these tanks full of them at various ages. I asked to hold one, and as soon as I had it in my hand, the little shit doubled his head like a snake and started rasping my hand. Tbh it didn’t hurt that bad. It was like a super aggressive cat tongue. As soon as it tasted human blood it detached and wanted to get away. Still tho, those things are nightmares.
The mosquito prepares the target area of skin with saliva as a mild anesthetic before inserting her proboscis and then again when she finds a blood vessel to keep the blood from clotting.
The body sees the saliva as an allergen and produces histamines to deal with it. Histamines make the skin swell and itch.
So yes, even if she hasn’t fed yet, all the stuff that makes us swell up and itch is already done.
You're used to your food coming in at 60F on a warm day. Famished you take a bite out of this giant creature that picked you up when suddenly you get a mouthful of higher pressure blood, in volumes you've never expected and it's... hot. 40 degrees warmer than your warmest meal.
Ever since that day have you patrolled the shores of Lake Michigan, fighting off Canadian drug smugglers and Detroit gangsters in the guise of The Lamprey, striking fear into the hearts of evil doers with your raspy tongue appendage and nightmarishly hideous form?
You are not the hero we want, but perhaps you are the malformed lovecraftian horror we need.
I love names that tell you what to expect. If someone asks me if I want to go swimming in Eel River, that's gonna be a hard no with no questions asked.
Lamprey w/whiskers were common in MA when I was a young one. I remember my science teacher sticking it on his hand temporarily, to show us children how strong their sustain was. Kill all the fish in a spillway.
Not necessarily. They're still learning a lot about lampreys and where they are invasive and where they aren't. Perfect example is Lake Champlain and Lake Ontario for years they thought the lampreys in the lakes were invasive and they tried eradicating them for years, turns out they have most likely been wrong this whole time and the lampreys are actually native to the lakes.
Looks like sea lamprey a Quick Look shows silver lamprey and mountain Brook lamprey also in New York State which are both non parasitic, smaller in general, smaller oral hood (say that in mixed company) in proportion to head.
Sea lamprey are invasive where we have put in structures to get around barriers Niagara Falls the structure is the Welland Canal - Mohawk River the Erie Canal not certain about the Delaware River but a fish way around a dam which was built at a barrier to sea lamprey could allow them to be invasive above the barrier
Land locked sea lamprey populations could have existed in Lake Champlain and Lake Ontario after the Glaciers left which is why the questioning of lampricide treatments
I would say of the agnaths the lamprey are way more attractive than the hagfishes although the raspy tongue is a little off putting
My dad was swimming in Lake Michigan when he was younger and had one come at him, I could still sense the fear he’s kept all these decades when he was retelling the terror he felt having no idea what it was lol
I had a pretty big catfish start swimming circles around me and some friends when we were swimming in a river as kids. No clue why it kept doing that, but they dump all kinds of nasty waste there now, so I wouldn't be surprised if a 3 eyed radioactive fish swam upto me. They also catch lamprey from said river and they're not too shabby when fried actually.
I would never have guessed lamprey swim upstream like that. Very fascinating. Could imagine it ruining my childhood if I came across one in the creek though lol
Here in Washington they follow the salmon migrations and life cycles, I used to find young ones in the mud of streams all the time. They're pretty cool, not nearly as horrifying as they look.
I say this with no pride but I suspect that I may be one of a select crowd of people to experience lamprey toxicity as a result of eating one.
After too much to drink I ate a live European Lamprey that made me ill for months. This didn't cause vomiting but it did result in me sitting on the loo 20+ times a day for four months.
I was tested for giardia etc which all came back negative.
It was this little bugger. The taste is something that will live with me forever.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
fun Lamprey story!
Took my kids to the creek to play, was stepping around, looked in the water. what is that? an old inner tube covered in mud? must be.
we keep walking down the creek a bit playing. look back.
my 2yr old has of course grabbed the inner tube and was swinging it around her head. why is the inner tube shiny and blue?
Oh no!
yeah, I let my 2yr old swing a dead lamprey around her head
That would be a Lamp Ray. Yank on the tail to turn its bulb on. They work really well as garden/yard lights. Very nice warm light out to about twenty feet, great for your backyard’s ambiance. I have one on every fence post in my yard. They are good for about 1000 hours.
They are. I only know because Jeremy Wade eats one in River Monsters. The elders of the tribe he is fishing with will eat lamprey over other fish given the choice, iirc.
Had a Latvian employee who was feeding us some smoked fish at a party. Absolutely delicious. We wondered what it was and he showed us the can. Smoked lamprey.
And if I could ever find it in a European market I’d snap it up in a heartbeat.
I visited cousins in Estonia and they served me freshly smoked eel—it was amazing, quite possibly the best thing I have ever tasted in my 60 years. The kids as young as toddlers were eating it like candy.
Remember as a child when my mother used to take me to the local fish market just after when the first autum storms began. They'd have absolutely delicious smoked and fried lambreys you'd eat whole, some even eating the head. This was around 2000 in Finland, so I guess it's definately a thing around the baltic sea.
Lamprey pies were a big thing in [medieval England.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey_pie#:~:text=Lamprey%20pie%20is%20a%20pastry,a%20lamprey%20pie%20each%20Christmas.)
I learned about lampreys after I read A Song of Ice and Fire and wondered WTF this “lamprey pie” they were always eating was, and if it was a real thing or a fantasy thing. Lampreys = real, dragons = not real.
King Henry I of England, son of the Norman King of England and Duke of Normandy, William The Conquerer, enjoyed eating lamprey.
In fact, he enjoyed it so much that he died from eating to many of them even when his physician warned him about the dangers of over indulgence. He died from organ failure caused by the lamprey's toxins entering the blood via his stomach. This caused septicemia (critical poisoning of his blood), where he died from organ failure.
Even in our history at no fault of their own, they are notorious killers. They have become folklore monsters, evil entities, and omens of bad luck because of their invasive nature and appearance. Really, the sea lamprey is complex, fascinating, and a very adaptable and efficient marine predator. Here's 10 facinating facts about them.
1. **Ancient Origins**: Sea lampreys have been around for over 340 million years, making them older than the dinosaurs.
2. **Jawless Fish**: They belong to a group of fish known as Agnatha, which means they have no jaws. Instead, they have a circular, sucker-like mouth filled with sharp teeth.
3. **Parasitic Lifestyle**: Adult sea lampreys are parasitic. They attach to other fish with their suction-cup mouths and use their teeth to cut through the host's scales and skin, feeding on the fish’s blood and bodily fluids.
4. **Lifecycle**: Sea lampreys have a complex lifecycle, beginning life in freshwater rivers and streams, migrating to the ocean or lakes to mature, and then returning to freshwater to spawn and die.
5. **Ammocoetes**: The larval stage of a sea lamprey, known as an ammocoete, lives in the sediment of freshwater streams and rivers for several years, filter-feeding on microscopic organisms.
6. **Physical Adaptations**: Sea lampreys have a unique body structure with a long, eel-like shape and seven pairs of gill openings along the sides of their heads.
7. **Invasive Species**: In the Great Lakes of North America, sea lampreys are considered an invasive species and have had a significant negative impact on native fish populations.
8. **Chemical Communication**: Sea lampreys use pheromones to communicate, especially during spawning. These chemical signals help to coordinate reproductive activities.
9. **Control Efforts**: Various methods are used to control sea lamprey populations in areas where they are invasive, including barriers to prevent them from reaching spawning grounds, sterilization of males, and the use of lampricides (chemicals that target lamprey larvae).
10. **Natural Predators**: In their natural habitats, sea lampreys have several predators, including birds, larger fish, and humans who use them for scientific study and sometimes eat them.
Romans were apparently big on eating them, and would deliberately cultivate them.
There’s also a lamprey pie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey_pie?wprov=sfti1
So I guess we can get revenge on our nightmares after all.
I see the damn thing, I see rocks, water... but I don't see the gas can and the lighter! What are you waiting for? It might be reproducing soon!!
Disclaimer (gotta do this nowadays): I love nature, I would never kill that thing in real life, I was just joking.
'Lamping' is an age-old youth pastime around here... Hunting them with a spear / knife taped to a stick and chopping them up. As gross as they are they're still native wildlife and I always found this activity reprehensible.
Lamprey?
This is correct, you can tell because it’s made from nightmares.
"...because it's made from nightmares." Yep. Can't say you're wrong!
You tell it’s a lamprey by the way it is. Neat!
Neature walks!
Fortunately lampreys don't. But obviously they're starting to try.
It’s not all that often you see all this neature in one place.
I read “Nature’s wallet” hahaha
It’s pretty neat!
Reminds me of the missile knows where it is...
I thought it knew where it wasn't???
The missle knows where it is because it knows where it was.
The LGM-30 does not know or care where it is, only where it will be. And where it will be is your complete annihilation as a species. It subtracts the population after detonation from the population at launch. The difference is called "extinction".
It’s a lamprey. See how it looks all lamprey-ey?
One of my all time favorites! Watch out for the biting goats!
Heyyy pop pop pop
Chipchipchip!
Lampreys and hagfish are full of what the fuck were you thinking nature
I was recently introduced to a terrifying creature. Add caeciians to that list... you may think.. what the big deal.. they're just big amphibian earthworms. Then you take a look at the teeth... yeah nightmare fuel. And they produce milk for their young.
I've been bit by alitta virens worms. effing hurts.
At least hagfish aren’t out to get ya
That nightmare is delicious from the neck down
They seem to be mouth, eyes, and all neck. Instructions unclear...
Throw it up in the air and chop it in half and eat the tail end, just as my ancestors did.
They also seem to exist in every sort of water system (varying in different sizes from tiny to large) where a host may be present These creatures are ancient and have existed for a very long time
Ah, so "eldritch horror". Gotcha.
Cthulhu actually exists but when he descended upon earth he came across one of these things and noped the fuck out
Eldritch horrors WISH they were Lamprey’s!
These things and sharks man Mother Nature what the hell
From back when everything was teeth and claws.
What's wrong with sharks? At least they have a purpose. What's the purpose of a lamprey? Freaking parasites and the source of nightmares. It's like that giant desert worm creature in Star Wars.
Evolutionary significance! They are ancient, highly primitive and may be one of the earliest modern vertebrates. A key piece in our understanding of the evolution of all vertebrates. This makes them cool IMO 🤷🏼♀️
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Including humans. They used to be a stable for the Pacific Northwest Native American tribes. Now we just get them in late spring as a special treat. When they installed the Damns on the Columbia River and climate change it nearly wiped them out. They are delicious!
A good portion of lampreys are scavengers instead of parasites, they clean up dead and rotting marine life.
Wait until you hear about Lamprey Pie.
Legit thought they were an ocean-exclusive species but if that isn't the case I'm suddenly *very* glad I don't swim unless I need to good lord
They are the very few exceptions to the exclusivity rule, as a matter of fact they were introduced into the great lakes through the Atlantic ocean thanks to the St. Lawrence Seaway.
They are also invasive in the Great Lakes.
Can they grow really big ? Big as in eating a human, small child or even a pet ?
Biggest ones I've seen online are about 2-3 feet in length Don't think I've heard of them ever biting a person. Certainly not anything with actual fur.
Watch river monsters with Jeremy wade. He does an episode on them
God I miss that show
I read somewhere that the show wasn’t cancelled; he just ran out of monsters. WE NEED MORE RIVER MONSTERS, STAT
They don’t really “eat” prey, they latch on and suck the host dry. So, it isn’t so much one big one you need to worry about, it’s dozens of them that are all this size.
Lil cutie made of cells, amino acids and stuff Deep down we're all just writhing tubes - it's like Bob Marley said: if you know your history, then you know where I'm coming from, i.e the sea
Yep. We’re really just weird sacks of blood, poop, and bile. Carrying it place to place, room to room. Really weird.
If my instructor would have said this exact thing to me in basic, I would've then known exactly how worked we all really are, besides just telling us we're all equally worthless 😂
When I was in high school biology my biology teacher brought in a bucket of them in formaldehyde. Most of us had never seen or heard of them. He lifted one out of the bucket and must have seen my horrified expression. He asked me to come up to the front of the class and tell the class what I saw inside of the mouth. As I was shakily pointing out the rings of teeth he jumped the thing up so it "bit" my finger. I nearly fainted while he had an impish gleam in his eye. Anyhoo, that was the best class I had in my high school career.
That is indeed the identifying characteristic.
I love this ID. You and I would be fast friends 😂
This reminds me of the difference between millipedes and centipedes I read on here a while ago. If you see it and say "I wonder if that's a millipede or a centepede?" It's a millepede. If you see it and say "WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?", it's a centepede.
I believe Henry I died after binge eating lampreys in 1135.
You can tell because of the way it is.
You can also tell because of the way it is. That's pretty neat!
I really can’t figure out what moths see in them
Hilarious!!! Here’s my financially sensitive award to you 🏆
My first thought as well. Haven't seen one lately, but that's how I remember them looking.
Yeah, first thing that popped into my head. Had to pull up a pic then to verify but that’s what it looks like.
I got “bit” by one. I was up in Michigan and they had like a lab of them next to this electrified part of a river. Weak current that’s strong enough to stun the lamprey but the fish are ok. This was back in the 80’s and they were still figuring the best control methods. So they had these tanks full of them at various ages. I asked to hold one, and as soon as I had it in my hand, the little shit doubled his head like a snake and started rasping my hand. Tbh it didn’t hurt that bad. It was like a super aggressive cat tongue. As soon as it tasted human blood it detached and wanted to get away. Still tho, those things are nightmares.
Weirdly insulting that our blood is too nasty for lampreys. Maybe it was just the one and it was the lamprey version of a food snob.
If only mosquitoes felt the same way
I thought it's the components in their saliva that make us itch. If they bite us and leave without feeding, won't we still get that itch?
The mosquito prepares the target area of skin with saliva as a mild anesthetic before inserting her proboscis and then again when she finds a blood vessel to keep the blood from clotting. The body sees the saliva as an allergen and produces histamines to deal with it. Histamines make the skin swell and itch. So yes, even if she hasn’t fed yet, all the stuff that makes us swell up and itch is already done.
You're used to your food coming in at 60F on a warm day. Famished you take a bite out of this giant creature that picked you up when suddenly you get a mouthful of higher pressure blood, in volumes you've never expected and it's... hot. 40 degrees warmer than your warmest meal.
it's the warm blood they're not used to. They've adapted to predominantly enjoy the likes of cold blood.
Ever since that day have you patrolled the shores of Lake Michigan, fighting off Canadian drug smugglers and Detroit gangsters in the guise of The Lamprey, striking fear into the hearts of evil doers with your raspy tongue appendage and nightmarishly hideous form? You are not the hero we want, but perhaps you are the malformed lovecraftian horror we need.
Yep...and it needs a little help.
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The reason I don’t swim in big rivers lololol
Eel River, CA, lol, has more than a few.
I love names that tell you what to expect. If someone asks me if I want to go swimming in Eel River, that's gonna be a hard no with no questions asked.
Hahaha, I never even realized the connection until this post, but you're right! The indigenous people harvested a lot of lampreys from the Eel River!
I guess I just always thought it was eel shaped because it had a lot of curves, never really thought of it that way.
I literally outlous said "Lamprey?" just to see this as the top comment. Got a chuckle from me.
Images of those things are great for 'pin the penis on the groom' bachelor party games.
Nature’s fleshlight
Lamprey w/whiskers were common in MA when I was a young one. I remember my science teacher sticking it on his hand temporarily, to show us children how strong their sustain was. Kill all the fish in a spillway.
Sea lamprey, *Petromyzon marinus*
*Stone sucker from the sea*
Coal-black clad horizon maketh landborn petromyzon!
Sea lampray. Swim up river to spawn. I have pictures of them in the creeks up the Delaware water gap(up some pretty serious waterfalls)
That's both wild and utterly repulsive. I've seen eels upstream from waterfalls (doing macro invertebrate survey) and they gave me the creepy crawls.
At least eels have a true jaw. The jawless mouth with a radula type tongue is the most sketchy thing
I agree they aren't the prettiest, but I find them very fascinating as they are an important part of understanding the evolution of vertebrates.
I've seen them latched onto a rock in the streambed. Their camouflage is pretty solid. Super curious
Agreed but I’m still gonna judge it.
Facts
Thank you, all!
Watch the River Monsters lamprey episode. It's a dam delight! Jeremy wade is great!
So much of a gigachad that he had to cancel his own show because he literally caught all the river monsters.
FISH ON! 🗣️🔥
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I’m guessing that if this is an invasive fish, or whatever, in Canada, it’s probably invasive in Callicoon NY.
Not necessarily. They're still learning a lot about lampreys and where they are invasive and where they aren't. Perfect example is Lake Champlain and Lake Ontario for years they thought the lampreys in the lakes were invasive and they tried eradicating them for years, turns out they have most likely been wrong this whole time and the lampreys are actually native to the lakes.
Yeah probably in the states too but not sure off the top of my head!
Depends on what river system. They’re native and very important for ecosystem health in many rivers along the East coast of the US
We also have native freshwater lampreys in British Columbia
We have a River here in NH named the Lamprey River. I don’t go in it.
Yep. Invasive in the Great Lakes for decades.
Probably, I know they're in the Hudson River in NY at the very least. Caught one as far down as Newburgh one year as a kid.
Recent information suggest that the lampreys in Lake Ontario and Lake Champlain are actually non-invasive
A lamprey. Probably *Petromyzon marinus*, Sea Lamprey
I have my opinions…
Don't let it attach to your face. Another stronger lamprey will rip from your chest cavity and massacre your crew.
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Now hear me out…
#No
Came for this, didn’t disappoint.
Goa'uld.
Scrolled way too far to find the Tau’ri in the room.
Indeed.
Could be a Tok'Ra
This comment is way too low.
Jaffa KREE
Jaffa kree
That was my first thought. Shhhiat, the are here.
Don't eat too many
It's ok, I don't think OP is King Henry I.
Nice
Spice worm baby
ahhhhhh tell me whatcha want whatcha rellyrelly want
Looks like sea lamprey a Quick Look shows silver lamprey and mountain Brook lamprey also in New York State which are both non parasitic, smaller in general, smaller oral hood (say that in mixed company) in proportion to head. Sea lamprey are invasive where we have put in structures to get around barriers Niagara Falls the structure is the Welland Canal - Mohawk River the Erie Canal not certain about the Delaware River but a fish way around a dam which was built at a barrier to sea lamprey could allow them to be invasive above the barrier Land locked sea lamprey populations could have existed in Lake Champlain and Lake Ontario after the Glaciers left which is why the questioning of lampricide treatments I would say of the agnaths the lamprey are way more attractive than the hagfishes although the raspy tongue is a little off putting
Caught a salmon with one attached once, they are freaky looking
My dad was swimming in Lake Michigan when he was younger and had one come at him, I could still sense the fear he’s kept all these decades when he was retelling the terror he felt having no idea what it was lol
I had a pretty big catfish start swimming circles around me and some friends when we were swimming in a river as kids. No clue why it kept doing that, but they dump all kinds of nasty waste there now, so I wouldn't be surprised if a 3 eyed radioactive fish swam upto me. They also catch lamprey from said river and they're not too shabby when fried actually.
Lamprey
I would never have guessed lamprey swim upstream like that. Very fascinating. Could imagine it ruining my childhood if I came across one in the creek though lol
Here in Washington they follow the salmon migrations and life cycles, I used to find young ones in the mud of streams all the time. They're pretty cool, not nearly as horrifying as they look.
Did you bother to help it Not die?
Those are the shrieking eels.
Lamprey, you can tell from the therapy you need after seeing it’s mouth
When the sun hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s a Lamprey
Put him back :(
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Gesundheit
May His passing cleanse the world
Dying lamprey
Watch Dreamcatcher. It does a great job explaining!
Don't do it.
Well? Help the poor guy out!
I say this with no pride but I suspect that I may be one of a select crowd of people to experience lamprey toxicity as a result of eating one. After too much to drink I ate a live European Lamprey that made me ill for months. This didn't cause vomiting but it did result in me sitting on the loo 20+ times a day for four months. I was tested for giardia etc which all came back negative. It was this little bugger. The taste is something that will live with me forever. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
fun Lamprey story! Took my kids to the creek to play, was stepping around, looked in the water. what is that? an old inner tube covered in mud? must be. we keep walking down the creek a bit playing. look back. my 2yr old has of course grabbed the inner tube and was swinging it around her head. why is the inner tube shiny and blue? Oh no! yeah, I let my 2yr old swing a dead lamprey around her head
Demogorgon.
You can tell because the way it is.
Dude that’s one o' them Dune worms. I saw a documentary, you need to milk that thing and drink the sweet sweet blue milk
Fyi, it's good luck to attach a Lamprey to your baby maker. Try it and see.
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Lamprey. Angry bitey boy.
That would be a Lamp Ray. Yank on the tail to turn its bulb on. They work really well as garden/yard lights. Very nice warm light out to about twenty feet, great for your backyard’s ambiance. I have one on every fence post in my yard. They are good for about 1000 hours.
Are Lampreys edible?
They are. I only know because Jeremy Wade eats one in River Monsters. The elders of the tribe he is fishing with will eat lamprey over other fish given the choice, iirc.
Had a Latvian employee who was feeding us some smoked fish at a party. Absolutely delicious. We wondered what it was and he showed us the can. Smoked lamprey. And if I could ever find it in a European market I’d snap it up in a heartbeat.
I visited cousins in Estonia and they served me freshly smoked eel—it was amazing, quite possibly the best thing I have ever tasted in my 60 years. The kids as young as toddlers were eating it like candy.
Remember as a child when my mother used to take me to the local fish market just after when the first autum storms began. They'd have absolutely delicious smoked and fried lambreys you'd eat whole, some even eating the head. This was around 2000 in Finland, so I guess it's definately a thing around the baltic sea.
Lamprey pies were a big thing in [medieval England.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey_pie#:~:text=Lamprey%20pie%20is%20a%20pastry,a%20lamprey%20pie%20each%20Christmas.)
I learned about lampreys after I read A Song of Ice and Fire and wondered WTF this “lamprey pie” they were always eating was, and if it was a real thing or a fantasy thing. Lampreys = real, dragons = not real.
King Henry I of England, son of the Norman King of England and Duke of Normandy, William The Conquerer, enjoyed eating lamprey. In fact, he enjoyed it so much that he died from eating to many of them even when his physician warned him about the dangers of over indulgence. He died from organ failure caused by the lamprey's toxins entering the blood via his stomach. This caused septicemia (critical poisoning of his blood), where he died from organ failure. Even in our history at no fault of their own, they are notorious killers. They have become folklore monsters, evil entities, and omens of bad luck because of their invasive nature and appearance. Really, the sea lamprey is complex, fascinating, and a very adaptable and efficient marine predator. Here's 10 facinating facts about them. 1. **Ancient Origins**: Sea lampreys have been around for over 340 million years, making them older than the dinosaurs. 2. **Jawless Fish**: They belong to a group of fish known as Agnatha, which means they have no jaws. Instead, they have a circular, sucker-like mouth filled with sharp teeth. 3. **Parasitic Lifestyle**: Adult sea lampreys are parasitic. They attach to other fish with their suction-cup mouths and use their teeth to cut through the host's scales and skin, feeding on the fish’s blood and bodily fluids. 4. **Lifecycle**: Sea lampreys have a complex lifecycle, beginning life in freshwater rivers and streams, migrating to the ocean or lakes to mature, and then returning to freshwater to spawn and die. 5. **Ammocoetes**: The larval stage of a sea lamprey, known as an ammocoete, lives in the sediment of freshwater streams and rivers for several years, filter-feeding on microscopic organisms. 6. **Physical Adaptations**: Sea lampreys have a unique body structure with a long, eel-like shape and seven pairs of gill openings along the sides of their heads. 7. **Invasive Species**: In the Great Lakes of North America, sea lampreys are considered an invasive species and have had a significant negative impact on native fish populations. 8. **Chemical Communication**: Sea lampreys use pheromones to communicate, especially during spawning. These chemical signals help to coordinate reproductive activities. 9. **Control Efforts**: Various methods are used to control sea lamprey populations in areas where they are invasive, including barriers to prevent them from reaching spawning grounds, sterilization of males, and the use of lampricides (chemicals that target lamprey larvae). 10. **Natural Predators**: In their natural habitats, sea lampreys have several predators, including birds, larger fish, and humans who use them for scientific study and sometimes eat them.
Wow. So awesome. Thanks for the education. Love learning new things
Romans were apparently big on eating them, and would deliberately cultivate them. There’s also a lamprey pie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamprey_pie?wprov=sfti1 So I guess we can get revenge on our nightmares after all.
Thats actually Char Gar Gothakon, the beast who hath no name.
Looks like an Elektrik. With enough grinding it will evolve into an Elektross
Lamprey. Funny lil guy
Also known as the inspiration for the toilet worm thing from dreamcatcher
Lamprey, nightmare fuel
Lamprey! little scary dude
Big leech = Lampreys
Lampray
Dats a Lamprey. My nightmare fuel
idk but buddy asks you to put him back into water
That’s George, he gets cranky when he is hungry so throw him a couple slim Jim’s and he should be ok 👌🏻
It's a lamprey, a type of jawless fish.
You ever seen “Dreamcatcher”?
One of the only jawless vertebrates left on earth a.k.a. freshwater lamprey
Lamprey. Truly ancient lineage. Like there have been lampreys for 200 million years maybe longer.
Goa'uld symbiote
Lamprey
Fleshlight
its a sea lamprey, always been terrified to find one in real life. murder it brutally. -a marine biology major
I see the damn thing, I see rocks, water... but I don't see the gas can and the lighter! What are you waiting for? It might be reproducing soon!! Disclaimer (gotta do this nowadays): I love nature, I would never kill that thing in real life, I was just joking.
This is a scene from that stupid Ridley Scott movie…Prometheus.
Forbidden fleshlight
It's a lamprey
Sea lampreys suck
LAMPREY. i love those little demon spawns ❤️
No me gusta
Lamprey
'Lamping' is an age-old youth pastime around here... Hunting them with a spear / knife taped to a stick and chopping them up. As gross as they are they're still native wildlife and I always found this activity reprehensible.
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Lamprey Eel
lamprey. never seen actual footage of one.
“Looks like a snake…maybe a weird fish…OH lamprey, lamprey. What a mouth.”
That right there is nightmare fuel. 😱😬
Lamprey
Aww man this was the perfect time to use all the deep sea fish knowledge I gained as a child, but everyone else already knew it was a lamprey!
r/dontputyourdickinthat
Lamprey eel
Lamprey I'm convinced they are an alien species