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Fish are made to function in the water, and that includes the way they feed, with water a requirement for getting food into their bellies. The snowflake moray eel, however, has defied expectations. It ...

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, ...

Genetic variations among moray eels don't show any geographic patterning, apparently because a long-lived larval form called a leptocephalus maintains gene flow among populations. With geographic ...

A snowflake moray eel peers out from its hiding spot. Bernard Spragg via Flickr under CC0 1.0 Researchers studying moray eels have discovered that these serpentine fishes have a freaky second set of ...

A Mediterranean moray eel appears to flash an enormous grin at an underwater camera in a hilarious close-up encounter off the coast of Cannes, France. Captured by retired snorkeler Eric Desmet, the ...

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 ...