Each spring small, transparent (and surprisingly cute) baby eels make their way up the Hudson River. Student scientists are ...

It probably helped keep them from starving,” Ms. Blanchard said. In fact, eels aren’t unusual in parts of eastern North Carolina, said Paul Dove, one of Ms. Blanchard’s employees.

Critically endangered eels hyped up on cocaine could have trouble ... in the Sargasso Sea just east of the Caribbean and the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. While the eels are also farmed for food, the ...