The invasive Asian swamp eel was patient in its ambush. It lay in wait, innocuous for 15 years, an air-breathing environmental timebomb, a brooding mucus covered virus in the freshwater veins of ...

Asian swamp eels are a concern primarily because they can arrive in waterways through everyday human behavior. While some local impacts are uncertain or limited, research suggests the potential for ...

Researchers from Florida International University sample for aquatic animals in the Florida Everglades, including the invasive Asian swamp eel. A new paper suggests these eels are devouring tiny fish ...

University of Florida researchers are asking South Florida residents for help against the spread of Asian swamp eels. The eels, native to East and Southeast Asia, were first observed in the Florida ...

Invasive Asian swamp eels in Florida are typically olive or drab brown with yellow-orange bellies. They can grow to roughly 3 feet and are nocturnal.

Crayfish and amphibians are vanishing as a stealth invader spreads statewide, raising alarms about cascading losses across fragile wetland ecosystems.

For a crayfish in the Florida Everglades, its worst nightmare is three feet long, dark brown and pure muscle, with a mouth like a vacuum that sucks up nearly everything it can find—tiny fish, small ...

For a crayfish in the Florida Everglades, its worst nightmare is three feet long, dark brown and pure muscle, with a mouth like a vacuum that sucks up nearly everything it can find — tiny fish, small ...