According to the team, its small and sensitive eyes and lack of sensory pores on the head suggests it may rely on its senses of smell and taste–or chemoreception––to sense changes to the chemicals in ...

Its lipless mouth pulses open, shut, open, shut, exposing its sharp teeth, forcing oxygenated water through its gills. Its eyes are big and dark and pretty much ineffectual. The shrimp-on-a-stick ...

A pale, mangled-looking marine creature washed ashore in the Laguna Niguel area on Saturday, disturbing beachgoers and generating thousands of responses online. But even though it looks like it may ...

A mysterious green moray eel peeks out from the depths of the Captain's Quarters exhibit. Eels of varying sizes - from worm-like to five feet in length - are plunging the depths of the Newport ...

The Hades’ snake moray (Uropterygius hades), a dark brown, slender snake moray eel, has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine moray eel ...

Zookeepers in Waco are reeling after a recently arrived shark was apparently killed by a moray eel that shared his tank. Loki, a 4-year-old bonnethead shark, joined the Cameron Park Zoo last fall and ...

A photograph of one of the moray eel specimens whose left eye is overgrown with skin. Moray eels that lurk in gloomy, underwater caves appear to be adjusting to the darkness by growing skin over their ...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Time to get creative. New Jersey SEA LIFE Aquarium needs help naming their green moray eel. The Caribbean native weighs 25 pounds and is six feet long. The green moray eel is ...

Coral trout, a species of fish, appears to be just as good as chimps at selecting team members for a task, according to a new study. Coral trout are speedy and adept at chasing prey above coral reefs.

During a wide-ranging and utterly bizarre interview on the Today show Tuesday, actor Tracy Morgan fretted about the health of his exotic animals after reading that a tiger at the Bronx zoo tested ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Fish are ...

When Valerie Taylor first located the home of a spotted moray eel near Banda Island, Indonesia, the famed Australian diver and ocean conservationist tried to befriend the eel by offering it a fish.