The Hades’ snake moray eel has found a niche for itself in a less common environment. Most other moray eels live in saltwater environments like oceans and coral reefs. This new species prefers ...

The Hades’ snake moray (Uropterygius hades), a dark brown, slender snake moray eel, has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine moray eel ...

According to the team, its small and sensitive eyes and lack of sensory pores on the head suggests it may rely on its senses of smell and taste–or chemoreception––to sense changes to the chemicals in ...

Anglers captured a previously unknown species of deep-sea eel off the coast of India, according to a new study. Photo from the journal Ichthyological Research When a group of deep-sea fishermen off ...

A new species of black, slender moray eel has chosen the road less traveled, thriving in dim and muddy river mouths, unlike most of its marine relatives. It is found across the Central Indo-Pacific, ...