Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eels. Just the name can bring shivers to some. Slippery, slimy and wiggly like snakes. All true, but some of us think they are ...

The wacky Houdini hijinks of a slippery eel have finally been revealed – and caught on film for all the world to see. "This study is the first to observe the behavioral patterns and escape processes ...

You have no doubt heard the phrase slippery as an eel and a new study looking at baby Japanese eels specifically has revealed just how true that is. The skilled escape was captured via x-ray video and ...

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Ellen Ruppel Shell was apprehensive when she arrived at Pemaquid Falls Landing in Bristol, Maine. The river below was teeming with elvers, otherwise known as glass eels — juvenile eels that flit ...

Ellen Ruppel Shell’s Slippery Beast is a fascinating account of a deeply mysterious creature—the eel—a thrilling saga of true crime, natural history, travel, and big business. What is it about eels?

The science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell hadn’t given eels much thought until a Maine neighbor announced that Ms. Shell’s nearby swimming hole might be brimming with them. Because eels are by their ...

Shell (A Child’s Place), a professor of science journalism at Boston University, delves into the international eel market with rigorous research and welcome humor in this beguiling account. Among ...