Japanese eels lay eggs in the west of the Mariana Islands, far south of Japan. After hatching, the larvae drift on the North Equatorial Current and the Kuroshio Current and are then carried to ...

Ellen Ruppel Shell takes a deep dive into the facts, figures and fascinating people that swirl around the intriguing eel.

Natural larvae become glass eels, which are key to securing resources. Hatching from eggs, they drift with ocean currents and become glass eels. The eels Japanese eat are raised from these glass ...

A flattened, almost completely transparent object moves slowly through the water. In its appearance, the colorless structure somewhat resembles an eel larva—and for good reason: this marine robot was ...

Kindai University in Osaka Prefecture said it achieved full-cycle aquaculture of Japanese eels after raising larvae from eggs spawned by artificially incubated adults. The institution said it ...

Five advanced third-stage larvae of a newly identified type of genus Gnathostoma were collected from freshwater eels, Fluta alba, which were purchased at a market in Nakhon Nayok, central Thailand.