The airboat engine with long metal rods at the front sputtered to a stop as researchers stood ready with long nets off Tamiami Trail. In the afternoon sun, electrodes dipped into the shallow, ...

Researchers from Florida International University sample for aquatic animals in the Florida Everglades, including the invasive Asian swamp eel. A new paper suggests these eels are devouring tiny fish ...

Scientists warn the eel could be more catastrophic than the Burmese python, causing an "avalanche of prey loss." The eels have caused massive declines in crayfish, small fish, and amphibian ...

The University of Florida is asking the public to help track the eels to prevent them from becoming more widespread. The eels pose a threat to native wildlife and could disrupt Everglades restoration ...

Deep in the Florida Everglades, the latest invasive threat to wildlife lies hidden in the marsh, slithering through the water in search of prey and, at times, burying itself in the mud. As a species ...