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Excerpt from cosmosmagazine.comA lamprey fish has been found living in the coastal rivers of Queensland, Australia, about 1,400 km north of the species’ usual range.
Lampreys are fish which recall a time hundreds of millions of years ago. Unlike most fish today, lampreys are jawless. Jaws evolved in fish more than 400 million years ago. Research suggests the development of jaws was vital in some pioneering species making the move onto land, becoming the ancestors of all land vertebrates like humans.
Australian brook lampreys (Mordacia praecox) are an endangered species. Their range was widely believed to be restricted to a 170-km stretch of coastline near the border of Australian states Victoria and New South Wales (NSW).
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