Hidden beneath the calm waters of New Zealand’s rivers and lakes lies one of the country’s most extraordinary creatures—the New Zealand longfin eel (Anguilla dieffenbachii). This ancient ...

Forget long-lived dinosaurs, over-size sturgeons or giant catfish: the mythical Loch Ness monster may have just been a very big eel. Scientists at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, came to the ...