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A strange deep-sea fish caught in 1989 off the coast of Antarctica has officially been identified as a new species after ...

Electrophorus voltai, a newly discovered species of electric eel, pictured swimming in the Xingu River, a southern tributary of the Amazon. L. Sousa Electric eels are hard to miss. They’re eight feet ...

Skip Zink has been a field biologist with the Maine Department of Marine Resources for twenty-five years. His specialty for the last fifteen has been the American eel, Anguilla rostrata, one of the ...

When you’re a predatory fish, sometimes the lunch you gobbled up doesn’t agree with you. Rather than accepting its fate, the still-living meal escapes your stomach and flees through the nearest ...

When Snakehead fish were first discovered in Virginia, each new find was accompanied by a news release and extensive media coverage. The nasty-looking exotics are old news now. So many have been ...

It’s always refreshing to see a handful of Mama Nature’s creatures working in unison, as a team. Seeing what octopuses do with their hunting partners, for example, is a good reminder that different ...

This TikToker’s mundane trip to the pet store took a shocking turn when an eel made a daring escape from its tank. Baylee Jaye (@bbjjuice) recently posted her first ever TikTok video, detailing how a ...

Wading birds are losing their prey, putting restoration efforts in the iconic wetlands at risk. The culprit, scientists say, ...

“What the hell is that?” three anglers asked as an official with the Roaring Run Watershed Association reeled in a creature swirling around in the Kiski River. It turned out to be an American eel.

A Silicon Valley-based nonprofit has raised about $1.4 million of its $40-million target to protect California coastal sea ...