Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. Fish are ...

Snowflake moray eel bodies are distinctive, with black and yellow blotchy markings that resemble snowflakes on a yellow-white ...

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 ...

A photograph of one of the moray eel specimens whose left eye is overgrown with skin. Moray eels that lurk in gloomy, underwater caves appear to be adjusting to the darkness by growing skin over their ...

According to the team, its small and sensitive eyes and lack of sensory pores on the head suggests it may rely on its senses of smell and taste–or chemoreception––to sense changes to the chemicals in ...

Most fish utilize a mouthful of water to swallow their prey. According to a new study, however, moray eels are unique in not doing so, allowing them to feed while out of the water … with some help ...

A new-to-science moray eel has been discovered lurking in the dim river mouths of the Central Indo-Pacific, inspiring a species name that’s a hat-tip to the ruler of the underworld, Hades. With a name ...

The population of American eels has declined. They need protection, conservationists say, despite their resilience.