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A blood-sucking ‘vampire’ creature with a mouth full of swirling teeth has been found on a British beach. The sea lamprey – a species known for sucking the blood of their prey – was spotted on the beach near Exmouth Marina in Devon. Will Miles, 26, encountered the bizarre creature and said: “It was very noticeable, lying in the centre part of the beach near the tideline – I was on a walk after work. “It was like a hugely oversized leech with a sucker full of sharp, inward-pointing teeth.” Once widespread in the UK, the sea lamprey are now rare, with their decline blamed on low water quality an…