This is no way to do your own colonoscopy. Vietnamese doctors removed a live 2-foot-long eel from a man’s abdomen — that had chewed through his intestines after he shoved it up his anus.

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

So what makes these eels so popular? And why are they so expensive? People in Japan have eaten eel for thousands of years. Restaurants like this can sell 40 to 50 tons of eel each year.

Eels weren’t always a food of the elite. We will also look at the history of eating angulas. They used to be plentiful and cheap, but modern life has ruined their habitats, and exclusivity often leads ...

YOKOHAMA—An "unagi" (eel) restaurant here was forced to suspend ... “I deeply apologize for causing harm to so many people,” Soichiro Tomita, a director of Isesada, said on July 29.