The first lab study on garden eels shows how these shy creatures use their burrows, and change their movement and posture, when feeding in strong currents Garden eels are the ultimate homebodies.

Garden eels are just one of the more unique species finding a new home in the Tennessee Aquarium's Scuttlebutt Reef ...

Off the island of Oahu lies an undersea prairie that is home to hundreds of Hawaiian garden eels. Shy creatures found only in Hawaiian waters, these eels only emerge from their burrow to eat ...

Garden eels anchor the lower part of their body in burrows, and face their heads against the current as they prey on zooplankton. The species pictured is the spotted garden eel, Heteroconger hassi.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is the mesmerizing moment a snorkeler filmed a colony of zebra garden eels rising out of the sandy sea floor off the coast of ...

Garden eels use their mucus to anchor themselves to the ocean floor and contort into strange shapes and positions to catch plankton. Garden eels use their mucus to anchor themselves to the ocean floor ...