The eel was prominently celebrated at the party, with one of the ships decorated to look like the slippery sea critter. Four ...

Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! It sends out electrical pulses to find food. Meet an electric eel at the Houston Zoo! Although it is called an eel, it is actually a relative of the catfish.

This slimline, eel-like fish has no scales for protection ... Why it's awesome: This long, slim fish doesn't look unusual until you see it return home — into a sea cucumber's butthole.

Reaching nearly four feet long, with a carnivorous appetite and a vicious bite, rarely using its tiny legs, instead slithering like an eel through ... of the places I look for them, I ended ...

These ancient, eel-like creatures don’t look like typical fish. They’re actually parasites, which means they latch onto other ...

They belonged to two new species of eelpouts, a kind of fish that look generally like eels but have front fins and a slightly different tail shape. “From my point of view, eelpouts are ...

Deep beneath the ocean’s surface, scientists have spotted for the first time a living “ghost fish,” an eel-like creature ... think that the fish looks like Falkor, the dragon from the ...

In this shattered ecosystem, raising eels or other fish can provide fishermen like Phat with a “buffer,” said Zeb Hogan, a fish biologist at the University of Nevada who has worked in the ...

Intrigued, researchers took another look at their footage ... showed a cutthroat eel, or Ilyophis robinsae, moving tail-first away from the camera in an almost ribbon-like manner.