GRANITE FALLS, Minn. - An American eel - far, far away from its natural home in the North Atlantic Ocean - was found in a southwest Minnesota lake late last month. Minnesota Department of Natural ...

Eels sometimes swim thousands of miles from their birthplace in the Atlantic to rivers and lakes where they live. Researchers say the creatures... Eels May Use 'Magnetic Maps' As They Slither Across ...

Part of the ocean food chain was on full display for divers in Maldives. Rare footage shows a battle between a large eel, a ...

The garden eel is harmless and actually pretty cute. But get a bunch of them together and things start looking a wee bit creepy. [Narrator] Oh, nothing to see here. Just a sea floor turning into a ...

This week I had a young visitor who rushed into the Oceanarium with his bucket and a very ailing American eel. Charlie wanted to see if I could revive it. I told him that eels are very adaptable, but ...

Storied spawning runs of European eels may not be an en masse push to a mating site. Roundabout routes may delay many eels so much that they miss the big event and have to wait to mate until next ...

Young European eels (Anguilla anguilla) are called "glass eels" at that stage because they're transparent except for a dark spine down the middle. Researchers have found that European eels can sense ...

A man holds elvers, young glass eels, in Portland, Maine, in 2012. Researchers have found that European eels can sense magnetic fields and may use this ability to navigate thousands of miles through ...