but by the time they settle into their freshwater home, they get massive. Long-finned eels (Anguilla reinhardtii) — one of the two common eels in Australia — can grow up to 1.7 metres long.

australis (shortfinned eel) are found in Australia. Freshwater eels are long and muscular with a skin which is brown or yellow in young fish and gradually turns mottled (longfinned eel ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victorian researchers may finally be on the brink of solving a great mystery of wild Australia. And it will take a combination of ...

The longfin eel, a species native to New Zealand that spends most of its life in freshwater but breeds ... before being served at restaurants in Australia, leading experts to speculate the eel ...

Of the four species of freshwater eel found in Australia, the short-finned finned eel (Anguilla Australis) is the most common in Tasmania. Like the Gunditjmara people, Indigenous Tasmanians likely ...

“Eels begin their lives in the Pacific and migrate to the coasts, estuaries and freshwater rivers of Australia where they spend decades inland maturing,” says the museum’s chief scientist ...

A rare sighting on an Australian beach has signalled the start of an exciting ancient ritual performed every year by one of ...

Water and young eels were brought from the creek to low-lying areas. It is considered one of the world's oldest freshwater aquaculture ... indigenous community in Australia - busting the myth ...

Tasmania and other parts of Australia on currents from the Coral Sea. When they sense freshwater, they swim upstream, metamorphose, attain the typical eel shape and colour and become juvenile ...

When Denis Rose was a young fella he caught eels in the freshwater that ran down the ... is to gain World Heritage status. It would be Australia's 20th such global treasure, along with the Sydney ...

Email: [email protected] An angler is celebrating after he reeled in Britain's largest ever freshwater eel breaking a 46-year record that was thought to be unbeatable. Steve ...