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

Lampreys can be managed, not eradicated. Much-maligned Fish and Wildlife bureaucrats monitor lamprey spawning grounds ...

Assistant professor Saga Tatsuya of the Graduate School of Human Development and Environment, who is captivated by hornets ...

Left unchecked, lamprey larvae grow into parasitic adults that ... to remove references to the sea lamprey as a type of eel. Though it resembles an eel, it is a fish. Perhaps you noticed: This ...

However, the list also includes ants, bees, butterflies, moths, and fly larvae. Immature mayflies ... a few other types of ...

The eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis) is a large, fully aquatic salamander, nicknamed the snot otter, water dog, devil dog, Allegheny alligator and water eel among other ...

Sea lampreys, which resemble eels but are not related ... a pesticide that kills larval sea lampreys. However, the program is now at risk due to mass firings of U.S. federal workers, including ...

Viral for their good looks, blobfish are very unique. They do not have a swim bladder, full skeleton, muscles or scales.

Sea lampreys are eel-like creatures with sucker-like mouths ... About a third of them are larval assessment staff, and another two thirds work with the lampricides, the compounds introduced ...

Many otherworldly deep-sea creatures, though, are so beautiful and mysterious that you won't believe they exist. Even in the shallow, many creatures are both eerie and splendid with amazing skills, ...

GORE BAY—With job cuts made in the United States Great Lakes invasive species program, a local commercial fishing operator and member of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) says that the fishery ...

Each year, the commission contracts with USFWS to spread pesticide targeting the larvae of lamprey eels. In Michigan, the fish and wildlife control team distributes a chemical known as TFM in rivers ...