"This is a predator like the system’s never seen." Experts alarmed as harmful creatures spread in US waterways: 'The worst … ...

For a crayfish in the Florida Everglades, its worst nightmare is three feet long, dark brown and pure muscle, with a mouth like a vacuum that sucks up nearly everything it can find — tiny fish, small ...

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

A slimy air-breathing eel that can live out of water for months at a time is slithering our way. Biologists fear the Asian swamp eel could wipe out countless small native Florida fish and ...

The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has confirmed that an invasive species of eel was found in Bayou St. John. The impact of the Asian swamp eel on native species is unknown, according ...

There’s another invader wreaking havoc on the Everglades ecosystem, and it’s a slimy fish with a voracious, indiscriminate appetite. Like so many other invasive species, such as iguanas and pythons, ...

They are a fish, but they don’t have fins and they breathe air. They are all born female. They’re about as long as a loaf of French bread. They hail from India, Pakistan and Myanmar, but according to ...

GENTILLY, New Orleans — An invasive species of eel has found a new home in New Orleans, which could spell trouble for local fish. The Department of Wildlife and Fisheries has verified that the Asian ...

Objectives: Swamp eel is one model species for sexual reversion and an aquaculture fish in China. One local strain with deep yellow and big spots of Monopterus albus has been selected for consecutive ...

Scientists from London’s Natural History Museum discovered a previously unknown species of swamp eel in the Khasi Hills of Meghalaya, India. The biologists found only a single specimen living in mud ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A newly discovered species of swamp eel is a blind, blood-red mouth-breather that tunnels through ...