The first lab study on garden eels shows how these shy creatures use their burrows, and change their movement and posture, when feeding in strong currents Garden eels are the ultimate homebodies.

Off the island of Oahu lies an undersea prairie that is home to hundreds of Hawaiian garden eels. Shy creatures found only in Hawaiian waters, these eels only emerge from their burrow to eat ...

This is the mesmerizing moment a snorkeler filmed a colony of zebra garden eels rising out of the sandy sea floor off the ...

Garden eels anchor the lower part of their body in burrows, and face their heads against the current as they prey on zooplankton. The species pictured is the spotted garden eel, Heteroconger hassi.

Garden eels use their mucus to anchor themselves to the ocean floor and contort into strange shapes and positions to catch plankton. Garden eels use their mucus to anchor themselves to the ocean floor ...

Spotted garden eels are becoming shy, say Tokyo aquarium staff, who are asking for volunteers to FaceTime with them. TOKYO — With much of the world's human population stuck at home during the ...

This beautiful, blue-gray, four-foot-long eel is actually very common in shallow water here in Hawai‘i, but they are rarely ever seen by divers. Melanie Okamoto of the county’s Department of Parks and ...