Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment.View full profile Rachael has a degree in Zoology ...

Scientists were baffled over how eels reproduced for thousands of years – leading to the belief they spontaneously spawned ...

For millennia, the reproduction of European eels remained an enigma, baffling thinkers from Aristotle to Freud. Danish scientist Johannes Schmidt finally pinpointed the Sargasso Sea as their breeding ...

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 ...