Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are ...

European eels make an incredibly grueling, mysterious migration to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.

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 ...

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 ...

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

There’s something wriggling in the Hudson River, and it’s a sign of rebirth for the waterway’s once-vibrant ecosystem. Experts say glass eels, which have long been endangered, are making a “bumpy ...