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 ...

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 ...

The otherworldly looking sea creature that washed up near Laguna Niguel was actually a fairly common fish, the moray eel. The eel’s teeth point backward, making it hard for anything it has bitten to ...

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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, ...