Every year, eels leave European rivers to travel in an epic migration to the Sargasso Sea in the North Atlantic to breed for a single time, then die. Although this final destination has long been ...

What’s so weird about eel sex? For a very long time, we had no idea how eels made other eels. We suspected European species ...

Eels start their lives in the Sargasso Sea near the Caribbean and the European eel species travels across the Atlantic to freshwater habitats. Mr Wood counts the number of eels on the River Wensum ...

For a very long time, we had no idea how eels made other eels. We suspected European species all flocked to the Sargasso Sea around breeding season thanks to magnetic pulls, and that the event ...

7000 km - distance between the Sargasso Sea breeding sites and the UK 90% - decline of European Eel stock since the 1970s The young Eels known as leptocephalus are so transparent that you can read ...

Fresh from last season’s power move of sinking boats in the Mediterranean sea, it would appear that this year orcas are ...

Biologists track the journey of the elusive American eel from the Sargasso Sea into Maryland's waterways, where dam removals and eel ladders are enabling these slimy fish to access their historic ...

Endangered European eels, which start their lives in the Sargasso Sea near Bermuda before heading to Europe and then returning to their birthplace to spawn 20 years later, have declined by 95% in ...

They live in the pond across the street from my house, but guess where they—and every other American eel—were born? In a warm womb a few thousand miles away called the Sargasso Sea.