The world's top wildlife trade body voted Thursday to effectively ban all international trade in the critically endangered oceanic whitetip shark but rejected a proposal to protect more species of eel ...

Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...

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While researchers are divided on the conclusion, the behavior shows wolves may be smarter than we thought. This still image of a wolf at night comes from a camera trap, which was part of an experiment ...

Eels have been a staple of European diets for millennia, from London’s jellied eels to Spanish angulas. But the world’s appetite is bringing them to the brink of extinction. European rivers once ...

Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are amazing creatures. Yes, I confess to being enamored of these slippery ...

The illegal trafficking of critically endangered European glass eels continues to thrive, generating up to 3 billion euros ($3.5 billion) in peak years, with more than 1 million live eels seized in ...

Research led by Hiromi Shiraishi, researcher at Chuo University, has revealed that, in addition to Japanese Eel (Anguilla japonica), American Eel (Anguilla rostrata) is now widely distributed in ...

A thickened soy-mirin sauce coats eel in this traditional Japanese dish. Because the eel has a thick, rubbery skin, skewering makes it so the fish doesn’t roll into a spiral while steaming, keeping it ...

STATEN ISLAND (WABC) -- Can you feel it? Spring is in the air. Birds are chirping, trees are in bloom, New Yorkers are lying in Central Park, and the eels are migrating. "So every year, thousands of ...

Over the last few weekends, as I’ve been watching my granddaughter, I’ve been indoctrinated into the Octonauts. They’re a team of creature marine biologists and aquatic explorers who teach us quite a ...