Crayfish and amphibians are vanishing as a stealth invader spreads statewide, raising alarms about cascading losses across fragile wetland ecosystems.

The eels pose a threat to local populations of native species and to Everglades restoration efforts. The University of Florida is asking for the public to help track the eels by reporting any ...

Along with Burmese pythons and green iguanas, there's another invasive animal that South Floridians need to keep an eye out for: Asian swamp eels. University of Florida researchers are urging ...

Professor Kenzo Kaifu and Research Fellow Hiromi Shiraishi of Chuo University, together with Professor Yu-Shan Han of National Taiwan University, conducted the world's first quantitative study to ...

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 ...