The route went through a “very difficult to traverse” region of northeastern India and led researchers to a “long lost” swamp animal. Take a look.

Fishes of the family Synbranchidae, (swamp eels), are characterised by the absence of paired fins, unpaired fins rudimentary ...

An initiative has transferred nearly 23,000 rare glass eels to the River Kennet. The Environment Agency's project aims to ...

Thousands of baby migrating American eels, called glass eels, make a 2,000-mile journey all the way to Staten Island ...

However, instead of the prevalence of the European eel, the team identified 70% of another species in the sample—Anguilla ...

In a village of southwestern India, a child peered into a water tank and noticed a “translucent” creature with visible bones. She didn’t know it at the time, but she’d just discovered a new species.

Longfin eels prefer clear waters, rocky beds and shade. In early April, a tonne of eels died trying to get to the sea from Canterbury’s Te Waihora/Lake Ellesmere, and the sight of their ...

(Photo courtesy of Kenzo Kaifu, professor at Chuo University) (Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The European Union is preparing a proposal to impose export restrictions on all eel species under an ...

Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed – and therefore our climate, new research shows.

The Atlantic cod—a staple in eateries—jointly topped the list of these important "ecosystem engineers" (along with Atlantic hagfish and European eel). In total, 185 fish species were found to ...