Electric eels are remarkable, snake-like fish with the power to deliver electric shocks to defend themselves, hunt, navigate and even communicate with one another. But how does their amazing ability ...

It is our hope that through implementation of urgent measures and better management and protection in the future, we can enable long-term recovery and sustainable exploitation of European eel, but we ...

Do 'electric eels', as the name suggests, can actually produce electricity? The science involving these aquatic hunters has made many people curious as some have tried to understand if this ...

Hundreds of elvers are being released into lakes as part of a plan to save the critically endangered European eel. Children from Bristol and Somerset have been rearing them in classrooms for an ...

For more than 250 years, scientists have known about the electric eel. But in a study released Tuesday, researchers revealed the discovery of two new species that could change our understanding of the ...

Every year, eels leave European rivers to travel in an epic migration to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic to breed for a single time, then die. Although this final destination has long been ...

Various criminal networks coordinate the illegal fishing and trafficking of these fish from Europe to Asia, as many Asian ...