Dive into the shadowy world of eel migration, where secrets swirl like currents in the deep. From their very first days, eels are shrouded in mystery. The European eel and American eel are both ...

"Their journey will reveal information about eel migration that has never been known before." The European eel faces many hazards throughout its life cycle, including changes to ocean currents ...

Perhaps eel ancestors had breeding grounds bordering the infant ocean. As the Atlantic got wider, the journey lengthened by a little every year. Selection would favour those that could cope with ...

Knowing this, the researchers hypothesize that overall efficiency, not the fastest speed possible, is the key to an actual eel’s lengthy migration while on a comparatively empty stomach.

“Their journey will reveal information about eel migration that has never been known before.” Cracking the case involved fitting 26 female European eels (Anguilla anguilla) with satellite tags ...

A hungry eel has been filmed crawling out of the water to feast on baby crabs as they try to make their way onshore during the annual Christmas Island red crab migration. In a video filmed by ...

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, they ...

The European eel and the American eel—both considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature—make this extraordinary migration. The Sargasso is the only place on ...

Tour lava flows and eel traps with an Indigenous Australian ... instinctively gorge themselves to save energy for an arduous migration that some will never make (sorry, little guys).