AMSTERDAM -- When a poacher with a baseball bat mugged Willem Dekker for his baby eels, it was further confirmation for the Dutch biologist that the species is in trouble. The European eel, a ...

A large gray serpent-like eel with a large lump in its stomach swims through the dark ocean. Ocean explorers recently stumbled upon an extremely unusual sight in the Pacific's deep sea — a rare, ...

OFF THE COAST OF COSTA RICA (KFOR/Storyful) – A deep-diving Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) off the coast of Costa Rica captured video that researchers believe has never been caught on camera before.

It never ceases to amaze us how many sea creatures remain unknown or unseen by most people. The ocean is incredibly vast, with much of it still undiscovered, which is why this is likely your first ...

Eels certainly are interesting creatures. Like a weird combo of a fish and a snake.While you may think of them more as sea creatures, there is a type that is native to the fresh waters of Indiana: the ...

Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are amazing creatures. Yes, I confess to being enamored of these slippery ...

At least one thing makes it out of the Bermuda Triangle alive. Sixteen American eels from there were found this week, of all places, at the wastewater treatment plant in Port Lavaca. “There’s more of ...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments have reached a deal imposing strict limits on catching eels to stop the depleted species from becoming extinct in European waters, diplomats and ...

For more than 300 years, most scientists have assumed that sperm "swim" through fluids by wriggling their tails back and forth like eels to propel themselves forward. But according to a new paper in ...