Anguillid eels are catadromous fishes with complex life cycles encompassing long-distance migrations from freshwater growth habitats to offshore spawning areas. Their life history begins as ...

For thousands of years, eels have puzzled scientists, philosophers, and fishermen alike. They spend much of their lives ...

Scientists in Japan who noticed a drastic shift in glass eel migration patterns sounded the alarm on an underlying issue. As reported by The Japan Times earlier this month, researchers from the Japan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are ...

On a misty-gray afternoon in May, four people wade into the Hudson River. They have come to check a large fyke net that catches small creatures. It looks like an open tent with a big tunnel attached ...

The genetic architecture of eel populations reflects a complex interplay of life-history traits, oceanic dispersal and evolutionary processes. Catadromous eels undertake long migrations between ...

An international research team has conducted a field survey on two species of eel native to Japan, and other organisms that share the same habitat, revealing for the first time in the world that these ...

European eels use an electromagnetic “sixth sense” to navigate during their long migration, two new studies propose. The electrical “shadow” of a new moon may help eels cross the continental shelf of ...

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 ...