South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

Researchers from Florida International University sample for aquatic animals in the Florida Everglades, including the invasive Asian swamp eel. A new paper suggests these eels are devouring tiny fish ...

Encounter an eel nowadays, and it’s likely in a sushi roll. Or maybe in your nightmares, inspired by the flesh-eating shrieking eels in The Princess Bride or the moray minions of The Little Mermaid.

X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal. By Annie Roth For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means all is ...

Moray eels are long, slippery fish with characteristically long jaws and piercing yellow eyes. Some varieties include green moray eels and spotted moray eels. Moray eels range in length from 6 inches ...

Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire. By Joshua Rapp Learn The conger eel was the favorite, weighing at least three times ...

The Sargasso Sea, a warm, calm expanse of the North Atlantic Ocean, is bordered not by land but by four strong currents—a gyre. Vast mats of prickly brown seaweed float so thickly on the windless ...

In the spring of 1876, a young man of nineteen arrived in the seaside city of Trieste and set about a curious task. Every morning, as the fishermen brought in their catch, he went to meet them at the ...

The goods are stashed in a warehouse on the scruffy outskirts of the Spanish city of Santander. An anonymous building far from the hubbub of holidaymakers on the beach – and from the eyes of the ...

Growing up in the Lettermarriner Clan country in Tasmania’s North Midland Nation, catching eels was a regular part of day to day life for Geoffrey McLean. “Part of my country is the Cataract Gorge, a ...

When Eel Bar opened last summer, the weight of expectation was heavy. For a certain kind of New Yorker — I am one — Eel Bar’s sister restaurants (Hart’s, Cervo’s, the Fly) represent a halcyon ideal of ...