Over the last week, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has gotten some strange calls from Fairbanks residents seeing scary looking fish dropping to the ground from above.
"The local Value Village store found a live lamprey in their parking lot," ADF&G reported "Another resident called and said he found one on his lawn!"
Looking more like eels or snakes than regular fish, lampreys don't have scales or fins and can grow to 15 inches long. Instead of jaws, an adult lamprey has a disk-like mouth filled with small, sharp teeth.
"Have you ever seen the movie 'Alien?' asks Andrew Gryska of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. "It's got this gnarly looking mouth, and then it opens up and another mouth comes out. Lamprey are sort of like that."....oh that's ok then! *grabs shotgun and boards up windows
