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Posted: 3/29/2024 8:31:58 AM EDT
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It looks like the monstrous sandworms depicted in Dune, but this blood-sucking 'vampire fish' and its mouth full of swirling teeth are all too real. Will Miles, 26, encountered the bizarre creature on the beach near Exmouth Marina in Devon while taking a post-work stroll last week. He said: 'It was very noticeable, lying in the centre part of the beach near the tideline – I was on a walk after work. 'It was like a hugely oversized leech with a sucker full of sharp, inward-pointing teeth.' The creature is a sea lamprey – a species known for sucking the blood of their prey; hence the 'vampire fish' nickname. View Quote https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13251939/Dune-sandworm-vampire-creature-Devon.html |
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That unfortunately, is probably somebody's fetish.
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Lamprey
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Well, that sucks.
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"You go to a supermarket and you see a faggot behind the fuckin’ cash register, you don’t want him to handle your potatoes.” – Neil Young re: AIDS
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Someone in GD is giving strong consideration in using it as a fleshlight.
New 'nope rope' species right there. |
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This is why I hate nature.
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Have another hit of sweet California sunshine
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Imagine that fucker got a hold of your tally Wacker!!!
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A lamprey?
big deal |
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I handled live ones once. It was in Manchester, NH at "meet a lamprey" event at the local fish ladder.
They are very muscular and exude slime when stressed. I suppose that makes sense as their relatives are hagfish, which I have also handled at the Isles Of Shoals research facility. The amount of slime they can produce is shocking (small hagfish filling a 5 gallon pail). Back in the good old days Lampreys were considered good table fare. They were called "Derryfield Beef" (Derryfield was the old name for Manchester, NH). They are an example of evolutionary success- their ancestors were sliming about in the ?Silurian? or Devonian at the latest. 450 million years or so is certainly not shabby. |
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Scratch And Sniff
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Do they bite hoo-mans? Need more details. Just can’t sink my teeth into this one.
ETA: Didn’t one of the kings die after eating too much lamprey pie? |
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“..statistically they are shortest people on earth. But they are very mean….”
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That's the stuff of nightmares.
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It doesn't matter if she's imaginary. The thiccness exists in our hearts.
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Shai Hulud!
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"What day is it today?", asked Pooh. "It's the day we burn this mother****** to the ground", squealed Piglet. "My Favorite day.", said Pooh.
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Saw what looked like a lamprey attached to a sucker fish on a small river in north central WI.
Tried to capture that fish, but failed. Therefore I can’t be sure it was what I thought it was. Didn’t know they’d be that far inland on this tiny river system. Figured if I were to capture it someone at the DNR might have been interested in it. This was 30-some years ago now. |
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Originally Posted By JimEb: Saw what looked like a lamprey attached to a sucker fish on a small river in north central WI. Tried to capture that fish, but failed. Therefore I can’t be sure it was what I thought it was. Didn’t know they’d be that far inland on this tiny river system. Figured if I were to capture it someone at the DNR might have been interested in it. This was 30-some years ago now. View Quote They're in all the great lakes Never saw one but saw the scars on Erie steelhead |
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If you live near the great lakes you know all about them.
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how brave is OP?
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Originally Posted By beitodesstrafe: https://i.imgur.com/FBLYW1v.png View Quote |
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Normal people
- sees weird thing - takes picture - runs it through Google image search - "Oh, interesting" - goes on with life British people - sees weird thing - "OMGWTFBBQ!" - Calls newspaper |
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"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
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I remember when they were the scourge of the great lakes when I was a kid.
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The “Three Stupid” Rule: “Do not go to stupid places, with stupid people, and do stupid things”
Religion is a handy device for keeping the philosophically deficient in line. |
Here’s an example from a butterfly, an example that it can be happy on a hard rock. An example that it can lie on this unsweetened stone, friendlessly and all alone. Now let my bed. I do not care.
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Came expecting Julia Roberts.
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"Here we are having a nice discussion on swords and the fucking pikemen gotta shit all over the place." - Silverbulletz06
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If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
"Monkeys through profit; I'm not a fucking sorcerer." - EasTexan |
I should call her
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“ Well, it feels like someone took a rubber band and snapped it right on the edge of your anus.” -JThompson
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Originally Posted By DrKlahn: Imagine that fucker got a hold of your tally Wacker!!! View Quote Attached File |
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Forbidden Fleshlight
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Now stop, hammer time.
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GRABOID!
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Preferred pronoun: MARINE
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My mom told a story of growing up on an inland lake in NY. She was swimming with her sisters and came out of the water with a sea lamprey attached to her back. One of her brothers pulled it off, but not before it cut her up.
I think the state introduced a toxin that affects lamprey so they’re not as abundant in the lake any longer. I’ve never seen one in 30-something years at the lake. |
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I'm sure some bloke, somewhere, has tried putting his dick in it.
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Years back I snagged one fishing for white bass on Wolf river in Fremont, cut it in half to get it off hook.
The Manitowoc maritime museum has a fish tank full of the gross fuckers. |
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If you die from natural causes, you're a pussy.
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Everything posted above is factual. Maybe.
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My name is Jeremy Wade.
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Yuck..lampreys ...I remember seeing those in the rivers 50 years ago when my Dad was stationed in New Brunswick Canada
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There, I said it...Don't tell me you weren't thinking the same thing!
I just want to go to the backyard, get a stick, and clean this thread off the bottom of my shoe.... |
Apparently it's a slow news day for the Daily Mail.
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"A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition" - Rudyard Kipling
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Originally Posted By Tejas1836: Lamprey View Quote This. Been a thing in lake champlain forever. There was a time that the LCI derby would give you a spool of fishing line if you brought one in when you weighed a fish. At that same time you couldn't catch a laker or a salmon that either had one on it or had a scar from where one was. NY has done a decent job of getting rid of them. |
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Sea lamprey.
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Last year I joined a support group for antisocial people. We haven't met yet.
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Gimmie dat Lamprussy
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Nature you scary.
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#53 says, "Take 22 mg absorbed Vit C per lb plus 1 gram Chaga daily. Don't forget 2000iu Vit D-3 & K-2, 30 mg Zinc and 2 mg Cu."
Unfettered with the formalities of an economics education but well read in monetary history. |
Originally Posted By greyninja: It looks like the monstrous sandworms depicted in Dune, but this blood-sucking 'vampire fish' and its mouth full of swirling teeth are all too real. Will Miles, 26, encountered the bizarre creature on the beach near Exmouth Marina in Devon while taking a post-work stroll last week. He said: 'It was very noticeable, lying in the centre part of the beach near the tideline – I was on a walk after work. 'It was like a hugely oversized leech with a sucker full of sharp, inward-pointing teeth.' The creature is a sea lamprey – a species known for sucking the blood of their prey; hence the 'vampire fish' nickname. View Quote https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/09/83028293-13251939-image-a-14_1711705544436.jpghttps://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/29/10/83028309-13251939-image-a-18_1711707404587.jpg https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13251939/Dune-sandworm-vampire-creature-Devon.html View Quote Kinda like Chinese thumb cuffs except for Mr Willy |
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Uke Bro mafia in the flesh
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Think I might rather deal with that than a Candiru fish.
eta: spelling |
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Finding a lamprey makes the news?
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