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It's longer than a bed, weighs the same as a mattress, is covered in slime, has teeth in its throat and a bone crunching bite
This 30-kilogram predator hunts mostly at night, ambushing prey before swallowing it whole with its specially adapted jaws.
See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Two new snake eel species discovered in Vietnamese waters, one with ...
Scientists in California have reported that moray eels have a set of teeth within a second set of jaws, called the pharyngeal jaws, that help them capture their prey. Once the moray eel secures its ...
Cirrhimuraena taiwanensis, a new species of eel discovered in Taiwan. Photo by Chien-Hsiang Lin and Hsin-Wei Liu from the Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica A snake eel with a fleshy ...
A snowflake moray eel peers out from its hiding spot. Bernard Spragg via Flickr under CC0 1.0 Researchers studying moray eels have discovered that these serpentine fishes have a freaky second set of ...
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