It never ceases to amaze us how many sea creatures remain unknown or unseen by most people. The ocean is incredibly vast, ...

Drastic shifts in animal behavior, like the glass eels' fluctuating migration patterns, can often be attributed to significant changes to the environment. As ocean temperatures continue to rise ...

Many of the fish we eat play a key role in maintaining the seabed—and therefore our climate, new research shows. Convex ...

However, the ultrasonic waves emitted by the eels only reach a radius of 1 km. Not just near Japan, but also further south of their spawning grounds, covering 11 locations. For some reason ...

Changes in ocean currents stemming from global warming have led to a sharp increase in endangered Japanese eel larvae reaching rivers in Hokkaido in recent years, a scientific team found. The ...

Researchers decided to study a group of confusing moray eels found in the Indian Ocean, according to a study published July 10 in the peer-reviewed journal Zootaxa. Generally, “morays are known ...

Hagfishes are excellent: they are part of the ocean's clean-up crew, have changed relatively little in 300 million years and can produce extraordinary quantities of slime. Hagfishes (Myxini) are ...