When Valerie Taylor first located the home of a spotted moray eel near Banda Island, Indonesia, the famed Australian diver and ocean conservationist tried to befriend the eel by offering it a fish.

This is a really rare and secretive, three-foot-long moray eel that lives throughout the tropical Pacific Ocean, but Hawai‘i is where it is most commonly seen. It’s Hawaiian name is “puhi,” and here ...

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 ...

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 ...

An underwater photographer got a little bit too close for comfort while diving at a coral reef in South Africa, and was attacked by a large moray eel. Bartosz Lukasik caught the moment he was chased ...