He stoked ‘deep state’ conspiracy theories. Now they’re coming back to haunt him. 'Big Short' investor Michael Burry says the ...

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 ...

Eels reproduce in the remote Sargasso Sea, but scientists have never observed their spawning or eggs in the wild.

Each autumn, eels leave European rivers to travel across the Atlantic Ocean to breed for a single time, then die. Tagging studies show that the fish swim more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) to the ...

Few animals have sparked humanity’s curiosity as much as the eel (Anguilla anguilla). Until a recent past, this slimy, slippery, snake-shaped, incredibly agile fish inhabited virtually every body of ...

Guglielmo Sonnino Sorisio receives funding from NERC. Catherine Wilson receives funding from the EPSRC, the Environment Agency, Severn Rivers Trust and Shropshire Council. She is a member of the Welsh ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. -- The American eel's chance for getting special protection slipped away Tuesday as federal regulators said there's no need to list the slithery creature as an endangered species.

Some 2,200 years ago Aristotle dignified the lowly eel by puzzling about the mystery of its life. Following him came scores of scientists who jousted with the problem with no success. All knew the ...