Moray eels are long, slippery fish with characteristically long jaws and piercing yellow eyes. Some varieties include green moray eels and spotted moray eels. Moray eels range in length from 6 inches ...

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According to the team, its small and sensitive eyes and lack of sensory pores on the head suggests it may rely on its senses of smell and taste–or chemoreception––to sense changes to the chemicals in ...

These X-rays show a moray eel's head and jaws: the top with the mouth slightly open and the bottom with the mouth wide open, revealing the second set of jaws. Moray eels have a unique way of feeding ...

Moray eels are the closest earthly thing you will get to the xenomorphs in the Alien series. Like the Giger beasts, this ambush predator has developed a terrifyingly efficient set of secondary ...

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.

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 ...

Moray eels and groupers hunt together according to research published in the December 5 issue of PLoS Biology. A team of researchers lead by Redouan Bshary, a biologist at the University of Neuchâtel ...

Moray eels can hunt on land, and footage from a recent study highlights how they accomplish this feat with a sneaky second set of jaws. By Sabrina Imbler In the video, forceps nudge a piece of squid ...

Lionfish, meet moray eel. Then, better get ready to meet your maker. This ghoulish guy is tough-as-nails, no-nonsense, the rogue of the reef, just nasty. But the spotted moray eel has a saving grace: ...

The dark brown snake moray really does not like sunlight. By Laura Baisas Published Jan 2, 2025 10:00 AM EST Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 ...

Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray's throat ...