The Florida Everglades is facing yet threat. This time, it comes from slimy invasive fish that might be even more harmful ...

Asian swamp eels, mucus-covered air-breathing fish that implode marshland food chains from the bottom up, have earned a nasty ...

Invasive Asian swamp eels — widespread, destructive and hard to find — are "abundant" in South Florida, and have spread even ...

There are few defenses against the Asian swamp eel which is rapidly expanding and could be more harmful than Burmese pythons.

Asian swamp eels have a few traits that make them a management headache, and these traits are extremely unique. For example, Asian swamp eels can breathe air and tolerate low-oxygen water, which is ...

Researchers at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley have made an exciting breakthrough by utilizing recycled glass as a ...

Meet the Asian swamp eel. While not as large as the massive Burmese python, this invasive species is causing havoc on the ...

In the canals, marshes, and swamps of the Florida Everglades, invasive fish are silently slipping into new waterways. Among them are the Asian swamp eel and the bullseye snakehead, two air-breathing ...

The invasive Asian swamp eel was patient in its ambush. It lay in wait, innocuous for 15 years, an air-breathing environmental timebomb, a brooding mucus covered virus in the freshwater veins of ...

A slimy air-breathing eel that can live out of water for months at a time is slithering our way. Biologists fear the Asian swamp eel could wipe out countless small native Florida fish and ...

Heads up Florida. Say hello to your new neighbor, the Asian swamp eel. The swamp eel is one of the latest — and unwelcome — invasive species seen in the Sunshine State and officials want the public's ...

WINTER PARK, Fla. — The invasive Asian swamp eel has been discovered in Central Florida, raising concerns about potential impacts on local ecosystems. These eels, which can grow up to three feet long ...