A terrifying blood-sucking eel with rows of swirling teeth has finally been spotted after a 20-year hunt.
Tour guide Sean Blocksidge extraordinarily discovered six of the lampreys– dubbed “living dinosaurs”– at once, after two decades of searching.
The strange jawless creatures evolved millions of years ago and have scaleless, elongated bodies as well as a specialist mouth known as a sucker.
They have a reputation for guzzling the blood of their prey, earning them the nickname of “vampire fish”.
Sean, 49, had heard local legends in Margaret River, Australia, about the elusive lampreys migrating up local waterfalls, but said they had not been sighted in 10 years.
He compared his relentless search to looking for a “yeti or the Loch Ness monster” – and could not believe his luck when he spotted half-a-dozen.
“It was a kind of surreal moment. I had heard so many stories from the old-timers about how the lampreys used to migrate in their thousands up the waterfalls,” the Aussie explained.
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