After months of intensive work involving 35 dump trucks, 10 bulldozers and 20 excavators shifting millions of litres of soil, ...

Commercial trawlers off the southern coast of India caught several unfamiliar-looking eels in January 2024 and gave the specimens to scientists, Paramasivam Kodeeswaran and T. T. Ajith Kumar wrote in ...

DNA from six critically endangered and endangered fish species has been found in fish maw products sold in stores across ...

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth.

Virtually all unagi sold in Singapore consists of endangered freshwater eels. Many other seafood dishes have less than savoury origins, says researcher Joshua Choo.

Xenacanthus had a long dorsal fin running the length of the spin, merging with the anal fin. It made them look more like eels than modern sharks, earning them the common name eel sharks. The spine ...

Drivers removed hundreds of eels from the road in Indonesia, causing a temporary traffic jam as they worked together to clear the highway. Footage shows a bed of ray-finned fish scattered across a ...

Scientists found 2-foot-long eel with fang-like teeth while trawling and discovered a new species: Cabo Verde spoon-nose eel, study said & photo shows.

Previous scientists had documented long-fin short-tail conger eels, or Ariosoma dolichopterum, off southern India, but the team wasn’t totally convinced.

Identifying a true eel from one of these electric imposters can be done by observing the dorsal fin. True eels have a long dorsal fin that runs down the length of their upper body, while false ...

"It does look like a very, very big eel — even for a long fin, that's quite large. "I would think it's probably going to be 15 kilos-plus, at least. The biggest I've seen in the flesh was 14 kilos.