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 ...

A new-to-science moray eel has been discovered lurking in the dim river mouths of the Central Indo-Pacific, inspiring a species name that’s a hat-tip to the ruler of the underworld, Hades.

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 ...