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 ...

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 ...

Three new moray eels are ready for visitors at the Virginia Living Museum on Thursday, March 29, 2018. The 2,000 gallon tank was created using mostly recycled parts to create a low-light environment ...

This TikToker’s mundane trip to the pet store took a shocking turn when an eel made a daring escape from its tank! The video begins with Baylee filming an eel swimming in its tank. The eel, which is ...

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 ...

This video taken by a diving instructor in Thailand showcases the sea snake, known as a banded sea krait, in its element: swallowing a moray eel as big as it is. The instructor saw the scene unfolding ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...