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.

Are those illegal eels in your unagi? A study has found 44% of North American eel samples – that's unagi when used in sushi – were actually from the critically endangered European eel, whose export ...

The slender "gulper eel" can unhinge its jaw and expand its throat, enabling it to eat squid-sized prey in a single gulp. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Angel Caputi, senior scientist and head of the department of integrative and computational neuroscience at the Institute for Biological Research "Clement Estable" in Uruguay, explains. The electric ...

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 ...

Taiwanese filmmaker Chu Chun-Teng's debut feature won't satisfy viewers after straightforward narrative, but vivid human stakes of loneliness and longing emerge from its fevered, erotic images.

A few weeks ago on Broome Street, drills were buzzing, wooden banquettes were being finished with green-corduroy upholstery, and Holophane lamps were being hung. A bar, the same shade of green as the ...