The Akron Zoo said a difficult decision was recently made to humanely euthanize a 9-year-old electric eel. Last week, the zoo ...

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 on Thursday sentenced eight people to up to five years for smuggling eel larvae destined for Asian markets, in a scheme worth over $2 million that prosecutors likened to cocaine ...

Intrigued, they took a closer look at the animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Ophichthus cuulongensis, or Mekong’s estuary snake eel. An Ophichthus cuulongensis ...

Hagfishes slime when they are stressed. In fact, one now-internet-famous image of a slime drenched car was the result of an overturned truck filled with the eel-like animals. This incident left a lot ...

Be it a matter of cost, principle, or just plain being landlocked, the idea of 3D printed vegan eel over the real deal is quite an attractive development. An Israeli company called Steakholder ...

They took a closer look at the animals and realized they’d discovered a new species: Ophichthus nguyenorum, or the dark long-body snake eel. An Ophichthus nguyenorum, or dark long-body snake eel.

New York has added the Atlantic Coast leopard frog, eastern fence lizard and eastern tiger salamander to its protected threatened and endangered species lists. The state’s Department of Environmental ...

They took a closer look at the animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Pangio juhuae, or Juhu’s pigmy eel-loach. Juhu’s pigmy eel-loaches have “thin, slender ...