This return to saltwater occurs after the eel has undergone a midlife metamorphosis in which it stops eating, turns silver and develops bigger eyes — another mystery surrounding the eel ...

Three researchers from National Taiwan University, Yen-Ting Lin, Yu-Hsiang Lin and Yu-San Han, teamed up with local fisherman Zhen-Hui Chen in northeastern Taiwan to catch the specimen in a fyke net, ...

Although they did not spot any bean-eyed snake morays, they did not come away empty-handed. Instead, they stumbled upon a slender moray eel that was dark in color. The team captured some specimens ...

Cirrhimuraena taiwanensis, a new species of eel discovered in Taiwan. Photo by Chien-Hsiang Lin and Hsin-Wei Liu from the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica A snake eel with a fleshy ...