Posted on 06/11/2015 7:38:03 AM PDT by JoeProBono
FAIRBANKS, Alaska,- The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is warning residents of an unusual phenomenon -- blood-sucking fish falling out of the sky.
The department said in a Facebook post it received four reports in a single week of the toothed fish, identified as lampreys, being found on dry land in the Fairbanks area.
"The local Value Village store found a live lamprey in their parking lot," the post read. "Another resident called and said he found one on his lawn!"
The department said it's unlikely the lampreys have learned to fly.
"The answer is probably gulls. Gulls are picking them out of the Chena River with their bills and then dropping the squirming critters while in flight," the post said. "Arctic lampreys spawn in the Chena River, and live in the mud underwater as juveniles for several years. However, many lifelong Alaskans have never seen one of these fascinating fish up close because their body shape and feeding habits make them difficult to catch."
Lampreys, which resemble eels, are easily identified by their disc-like mouths filled with small, sharp teeth. The department said lampreys use their teeth and tongues to bite through the scales of other fish and feast on their blood.
"Commercial and subsistence fishers throughout Alaska are quite familiar with the tell-tale, dime-sized circular scars on salmon and trout that have been fed upon by lampreys," the department said on its website.
Urp.
You NEVER fail me, Joe! I can’t stop laughing... :)
Thanks...someone from SYFY will see that and another B classic movie series will be born!
“When you’re down by the sea and an eel bites your knee, that’s a Moray.”
Yet if you repeatedly jump in’ and get bit, yet agin’ you’re a moron!
“Invasion of the Democrats”
Nobody is safe! “Watch the Skies”, “Watch the Skies”.
The tax-sucking flying Democrats are now attacking America’s last frontier. Man your guns!
To #31. Leave it to the French(and Japanese) to know how to make cooking a vampire sound like fun, and tasty too.
So that “pee on yourself to deter a rapist” thing might actually work?
Lol, I don’t go in for “B” movies much, but if it’s got Shannon Doherty fighting lampreys with a curling iron, I might have to give it a shot!
Can’t do anything but help.
Shocking, I tell you, shocking!
To 53. Wrong “Shannon”. Not Doherty, Elizabeth. If you saw her in “American Pie”, you’ll immediately forget that Shannon Doherty ever existed.
As for the eel. It bears a strange resemblance to Katherine Sebelius.
Shannen Doherty
Shannon Elizabeth
I’m an Elizabethan Man myself.
Great Photo. Don’t show it to my wife. She hates “American Pie”.
HA! Hilarious!!!
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