Bloodsucking Fish with Monster Mouth Resurfaces in Australia

SYDNEY – Blood sucking fish not a figment because recently scientists managed to find it again after being lost for two decades. This ancient fish named lamprey was re-discovered in Australia’s Murray River.

Quoted from News.co.au, the lamprey nearly became extinct after Australia experienced a severe drought from 2001 to 2009. This drought caused the Lower Murray river system to cut off for more than three years.

“After the drought, we really struggled to find lampreys. We are concerned about losing some species of lamprey from the Murray-Darling Valley,” said Adrienne Rumbelow, Department of Environment and Water Program leader for Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth.

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But after monitoring for several years, researchers rediscovered blood sucking fish is on the Murray River. The Department of Environment and Water noted that 91 marsupial lampreys and four short-headed lampreys swam from South Australia’s Coorong through the Murray River system between July and October last year.

“This is the highest number of ancient and native species ever monitored in Australia during the winter,” he said.

The ecosystem in the Murray River is now gradually returning to normal so that lampreys can continue to breed. As is known, lampreys are anadromous fish that migrate from the sea to freshwater rivers to lay their eggs.

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The Murray-Darling Basin Authority describes the shape of a medium-sized, slender and elongated marsupial lamprey, with an eel-like body without scales with an adult length ranging between 50cm and 70cm.

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