The European Union is preparing a proposal to impose export restrictions on all eel species under an international agreement ...

Gulper eels are found deep underwater with little known information about them. Watch this video of a gulper eel ballooning ...

A 4-year-old girl in India noticed a “translucent” creature in a water tank and helped scientists discover a new species, a ...

A French court sentenced eight people for smuggling eel larvae in a scheme worth over $2 million that prosecutors likened to ...

Sure enough, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Ariosoma tamilicum, or the Tamil short-tail conger. Tamil short-tail conger eels have “stout” bodies reaching up to 12 ...

The ricefield eel (Monopterus albus) is the only protogynous hermaphrodite freshwater fish. How this species changes its sex remains elusive. By performing comparative transcriptome analysis, we ...

The researchers then identified the species of eel in each product by extracting its DNA and comparing it against known genetic sequences of different eel species. But instead of European eels ...