Seafood

They prey on eels, which they can find when they slide through a reef’s crevices. Female sea snakes tend to go for bigger eels in… Read More »Do Snakes Eat Eels?

35 – 40 years. The average life of spotted garden eel is 35 – 40 years. You can see the spotted garden eel in the… Read More »How Long Do Garden Eels Live?

Life History. Garden eels will generally only leave their original burrows to move closer to mates during spawning season. If two males end up too… Read More »Do Garden Eels Leave Their Burrows?

Sand eels, also called sand launce, are found along the Atlantic Coast from Labrador to Cape Hatteras. In near-coastal waters, they congregate in huge masses… Read More »Where Do Sand Eels Live?

Electric “eels” are members of the Family Electrophoridae in the Order Gymnotiformes or knifefish. An interesting thing about this order is that their closest relatives… Read More »What Is The Closest Relative To An Eel?

The sand eel’s scientific name is Ammodytes americanus. Ammodytes is a Greek compound word for sand burrower–the eel burrows to rest or hide from predators.… Read More »What Is A Sand Eel Called?

Behavior: Spotted garden eels burrow into the sandy sea bottom to make their home. They make their body rigid by tightening their muscles and then… Read More »Why Do Garden Eels Stick Out In The Sand?

ALL the eels in Europe and America are born in the Sargasso Sea (in the Bermuda Triangle! Ominous? Yes). Eels might even live in a… Read More »Do Eels Travel To The Bermuda Triangle?

Sand eels live amongst sandy sediment of the sea bed where they spend most of the year burrowed avoiding predators. They are also found living… Read More »Do Eels Live In Sand?