Editor's Note: A news story about this research was published in September, 2007. Moray eels, to my certain knowledge, will bite if provoked. They belong to a family of elongated bony fishes with an ...

Fish prefer to dine in—feeding on their prey in water—but amazing new footage demonstrates that a species of moray eel can snatch and swallow their victims on dry land. The brightly colored chordate ...

The giant moray eel is normally a lone hunter in the dark. Now scientists find these eels may at times hunt in the daytime in the Red Sea, and surprisingly cooperate with another predatory fish, the ...

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 ...

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

For most fish that can exit the water to feed on land, the skill comes with a catch: After they capture their prey, they need water to actually swallow it. This usually means dragging their food back ...

Don’t play games with the coral trout – it might just outmaneuver you. These fish appear to be just as skilled as chimpanzees at picking the best, most able allies to help them nab some food, new ...

FREMANTLE, Australia, Nov. 24 (UPI) --A man using a baited camera to film fish in Australia recorded the surprise attack of a moray eel. The video, uploaded to YouTube by Stargazer Pictures, shows ...

Visakhapatnam: The carcass of a Moray eel fish has created a stir in the vicinity of Visakhapatnam's Sagar Nagar beach on Tuesday. People were frightened by this huge fish that was in the shape of a ...