Close to 100 per cent of the 257 items analysed had genetic traces of threatened freshwater eel species. Read more at ...

Tamil short-tail congers live on the “sandy bottom of shallow waters” and are “carnivores, mostly (feeding) on small ...

Sure enough, researchers realized they’d discovered a new species: Ariosoma tamilicum, or the Tamil short-tail conger. Tamil short-tail conger eels have “stout” bodies reaching up to 12 ...