Sentences with phrase «parasitic lamprey»

Jawless vertebrates include the parasitic lamprey and scavenging hagfish: eel - like creatures that diverged from the ancestral line over 400 million years ago.

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Unlike most animals, sea lampreys, an invasive, parasitic species of fish damaging the Great Lakes, could become male or female depending on how quickly they grow, according to a U.S. Geological Survey study.

Lampreys may have gone parasitic early in the history of vertebrates and so have had a long time to evolve their vampiric specializations.