May 20, 2015 — A New York creek has a vampire problem.
“They’re a couple feet long, very, very different. They are fish, no connection to eels, though they do look similar,” reported WKBW‘s Matt Bové.
They’re called sea lampreys, though it’s easy to see why some folks refer to them as vampire fish. They’ve been around for hundreds of millions of years, though their presence in waters near the Great Lakes is a little more recent.