To shed light on how the eel skeleton shrinks as it matures, the scientists analyzed the bones of 30 specimens at different stages of the eel life cycle. Since eel migration takes place in the ...

The eel is now healing, she said, and the image of his sinuous skeleton has become a “beautiful” keepsake, perhaps even one that the zoo could put on display. “I think a 3-D reconstruction ...

Biting eels have experienced greater independence ... transitions can change the evolutionary potential of the vertebrate skeleton by altering functional relationships among structures.

A green moray eel.Credit...Disney’s Animals ... while snakes are almost all spine. A stingray’s skeleton is made entirely of cartilage. Anteaters and pangolins, which slurp down insects ...

The eels were “common,” found at depths of ... body length and proportions, teeth, skeleton and other subtle physical features, the study said. Researchers did not provide a DNA analysis.