After more than a decade of searching, conservationists have found a healthy population of the endangered black mudfish (Waikaka) in a wetlands area near Helensville. The discovery brings a rare ...

An international conference on trade in endangered species held a vote Thursday on the protection of all types of eel. The European Union proposal that all kinds of eel, including Japanese eel, should ...

A proposal to add Japanese eel to species subject to regulation is prompting concern that prices for the delicacy may increase. The Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade ...

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also ...

Two Northern California tribes announced Wednesday that they signed a treaty last month, committing to jointly restore the Eel River and its fish populations. Leaders from the Round Valley Indian ...

Eels have been a staple of European diets for millennia, from London’s jellied eels to Spanish angulas. But the world’s appetite is bringing them to the brink of extinction. European rivers once ...

When the tide rolls out along the shoreline of San Pablo Bay, plots of long, sinewy grass, known as eel grass, peak out from the water. Researchers have long known these plots of grass as a favorite ...

ORLANDO, FLA. (WSVN) - Scientists in Central Florida are tracking the spread of an invasive eel species. According to scientists, the Asian swamp eels are invading new territory during major flooding ...

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"By using eels as a living model, we were able to guide the simulation and robotics models with biological data." The models in this study show that basic components of the motor system, like ...

Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are amazing creatures. Yes, I confess to being enamored of these slippery ...