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Long thought extinct, lampreys return to Oregon’s Miller Lake
In The NewsIn the wondrous world of Oregon wildlife, few things will make you squirm like the Miller Lake lamprey.THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR:The adults look like dark, wiggling worms with circular mounts full of teeth that they use to latch onto fish. At just a couple inches long, they’re the smallest parasitic lampreys in the world.“There’s much that’s unknown about them,” said Ben Clemens, the lamprey coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. “They are cryptic. They are weird. People think they look like aliens.”For decades, they were thought to be extinct, but not as a side...…In The NewsIn the wondrous world of Oregon wildlife, few things will make you squirm like the Miller Lake lamprey.THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR:The adults look like dark, wiggling worms with circular mounts full of teeth that they use to latch onto fish. At just a couple inches long, they’re the smallest parasitic lampreys in the world.“There’s much that’s unknown about them,” said Ben Clemens, the lamprey coordinator for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife. “They are cryptic. They are weird. People think they look like aliens.”For decades, they were thought to be extinct, but not as a side...WW…
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