Roughly 1,000 Hudson River Eel project volunteers net, count, and release about two million juvenile American eels per migrating season. By Laura Baisas Published Mar 13, 2024 5:00 PM EDT Add Popular ...

Japanese eels are born far out at sea. Their larvae drift toward the coasts of East Asia, where the young eels enter rivers, estuaries, and coastal waters. Years later, as autumn and winter arrive, ...

For centuries, eels have appeared in myths, on plates, and in human imagination while holding on to one enduring secret: how do they reproduce? Ancient Egyptians thought the sun shining on the Nile ...

Researchers from Florida International University sample for aquatic animals in the Florida Everglades, including the invasive Asian swamp eel. A new paper suggests these eels are devouring tiny fish ...

Eels have fascinated humans for thousands of years, even captivating big thinkers like Aristotle and Freud. Despite having been around for some 200 million years, eels are still rather mysterious ...

The Japanese grill them, the Dutch smoke them, while the English pack them into little pots of jelly or bake them in fragrant pies. Why then do many Australians shrink in horror at the idea of a meal ...

Juvenile American eels are transparent and called glass eels. They annually migrate north to New York's Hudson River from February through May. For the first time, this citizen science data will be ...