The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark but rejected a proposal to protect more species of eel ...

The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also endangered and will be discussed at a key global forum that regulates trade of threatened wildlife, starting in Uzbekistan on Monday. "It's a luxury dish ...

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 ...

For centuries, eels have appeared in myths, on plates, and in human imagination while holding on to one enduring secret: how do they reproduce? Ancient Egyptians thought the sun shining on the Nile ...

Eighth-graders on Staten Island spent their free time this past spring counting — thousands of eels! Dozens of nature-minded middle-schoolers waded into Richmond Creek with nets in hand to scoop out ...

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 ...

The illegal trafficking of critically endangered European glass eels continues to thrive, generating up to 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in peak years, with more than 1 million live eels seized in ...

Research led by Hiromi Shiraishi, researcher at Chuo University, has revealed that, in addition to Japanese Eel (Anguilla japonica), American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) is now widely distributed in ...

FESTUS, Mo. (KFVS) - Did you know there are eels in Missouri? According to the Mo. Department of Conservation, Steve Hite of Environmental Restoration, LLC caught and released an eel on Monday, June 2 ...

The two eels were recorded hanging out together on the Ahyi Seamount, an active volcano in the Northern Mariana Islands region of the West Pacific, the Ocean Exploration Trust says. Nautilus Live ...

STATEN ISLAND (WABC) -- Can you feel it? Spring is in the air. Birds are chirping, trees are in bloom, New Yorkers are lying in Central Park, and the eels are migrating. "So every year, thousands of ...

A thickened soy-mirin sauce coats eel in this traditional Japanese dish. Because the eel has a thick, rubbery skin, skewering makes it so the fish doesn’t roll into a spiral while steaming, keeping it ...