Three researchers from National Taiwan University, Yen-Ting Lin, Yu-Hsiang Lin and Yu-San Han, teamed up with local fisherman ...

Humans are not alone in finding it difficult to catch eels, as new research reveals the elusive creatures can sometimes give underwater predators the slip even after they have been swallowed whole.

The dorsal fin runs the length of its body and the upper jaw extends beyond the lower one. After an amazing migration to the centre of the Atlantic the mature conger eel spawns only once and then ...

The new species, Cirrhimuraena taiwanensis, is a member of a genus of snake eels with “small, fleshy projections located on the upper jaw,” known as cirri, according to the study. The new ...