“What a beast!” Plymouth Fisheries posted on Twitter, alongside a photo of the slimy giant. Conger eels are the largest eels in the world, but fishermen rarely catch specimens of this siz ...

Eels are very plentiful in Loch Ness, with eel DNA found at pretty much every location sampled - there are a lot of them. So - are they giant eels? "Well, our data doesn't reveal their size ...

The UK is trading millions of eels with Russia under a programme that is risking national security, campaigners have warned. Large numbers of critically endangered glass eels are being transported ...

7000 km - distance between the Sargasso Sea breeding sites and the UK 90% - decline of European Eel stock since the 1970s The young Eels known as leptocephalus are so transparent that you can read ...

The Prince of Wales asked a research scientist whether she could find the Loch Ness Monster, insisting that it was what “everyone” wanted to know.