After a 20-year search tour guide finally spots the jawless 'living dinosaur' eel in Australia that 'guzzles the blood of its prey'
A 20-year manhunt for a pre-historic Lamprey species has ended in WA A local tour guide stumbled upon six of the Lampreys on October 19 The tour guide said it was like 'searching for a yeti or the Lochness Monster' The population size of the species has declined according to the tour guide By Samuel Squire For Daily Mail Australia
Published: 05:41 GMT, 5 November 2021 | Updated: 05:50 GMT, 5 November 2021
A pre-historic eel-like fish has been discovered in Wooditchup, Margaret River after a 20-year-long hunt.
Local tour guide Sean Blocksidge has been searching for Lampreys, which are jawless creatures that pre-date dinosaurs, for decades.
Mr Blocksidge said the remarkable discovery on October 19 goes against the odds, as he said no-one he knows has seen one in the last five-ten years.
Adults only grow to between 500-700mm, which means they can be easy to miss if you aren't looking, according to the Murray Darling Basin Authority (MDBA).
Mr Blocksidge spent nearly 20 years searching for Pouched Lampreys in Margaret River
The keen-eyed tour guide said finding them was like discovering a mythical animal - and he found six at once.
'It's been
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