A few years ago, Heather Adamson was walking around a pet store when the sight of a distressed animal stopped her in her tracks. She saw an eel stuck in a cramped tank, swimming frantically upside ...

A slippery, rarely seen creature may make a surprise appearance in Missouri waters this summer. Believe it or not, American eels live in the Show Me State.

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 ...

Seven women received special awards recently from Soroptimist International of Eel River Valley (SIERV). The club handed out the Violet Richardson, Kathleen Turner Award for Resilience, Ruby, and Live ...

To investigate the prevalence and consumption of endangered eels, a research team examined 327 individual eel products purchased across 86 retailers throughout Singapore. The team discovered ...

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 ...

Eels have been a staple of European diets for millennia, from London’s jellied eels to Spanish angulas. But the world’s appetite is bringing them to the brink of extinction. European rivers once ...