The first lab study on garden eels shows how these shy creatures use their burrows, and change their movement and posture, when feeding in strong currents. Garden eels are the ultimate homebodies.

Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers at UC Davis have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray's ...

Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers at UC Davis have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray’s ...

A snowflake moray eel peers out from its hiding spot. Bernard Spragg via Flickr under CC0 1.0 Researchers studying moray eels have discovered that these serpentine fishes have a freaky second set of ...

The Asian swamp eel (Monopterus albus) is an unusual freshwater fish with a snake-like body and no scales. Native to East and ...

This X-ray shows the pharyngeal jaws in their protracted position -- after the eel, using its oral jaws, has sunk a few teeth into its prey. Researchers say the pharyngeal jaws reach forward, grab the ...

Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers at UC Davis have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray's ...

The first lab study on garden eels shows how these shy creatures use their burrows, and change their movement and posture, when feeding in strong currents Garden eels are the ultimate homebodies.

These X-rays show a moray eel's head and jaws: the top with the mouth slightly open and the bottom with the mouth wide open, revealing the second set of jaws. Moray eels have a unique way of feeding ...

Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray's throat ...