Few animals have sparked humanity’s curiosity as much as the eel (Anguilla anguilla). Until a recent past, this slimy, slippery, snake-shaped, incredibly agile fish inhabited virtually every body of ...
Consumed worldwide, eel is particularly popular in Asia, and perhaps nowhere more so than Japan, where remains found in tombs show it has been eaten on the ...
THE time of spawning and the differences between the sexes of the common eel has been hitherto unknown. Last year for the first time in this country eels (Anguilla bostoniensis) containing eggs were ...
Quebec City, October 27, 2015--After more than a century of speculation, researchers have finally proved that American eels really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea to reproduce. A team supervised by ...
A MONG the apodal fishes of the British Museum described by Kaup in 1856 was a transparent, tape-like fish of about 8 cm. in length, similar to the uppermost specimen in Fig. 1 here reproduced. This ...
“ALL THE important questions...have been settled,” Max Schultze, a German biologist, opined on his deathbed in 1874. “Except the eel question.” Few outside biology would have understood what vexed him ...
Few animals have sparked humanity’s curiosity as much as the eel (Anguilla anguilla). Until a recent past, this slimy, slippery, snake-shaped, incredibly agile fish inhabited virtually every body of ...
HAMAMATSU, Japan — Tsuyoshi Hachisuka gently places skewered eel on a grill, preparing a much-loved Japanese delicacy that is now so endangered it commands eyewatering prices and the attention of ...
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Tsuyoshi Hachisuka gently places skewered eel on a grill, preparing a much-loved Japanese delicacy that is now so endangered it commands eye-watering prices and the attention of international ...