This is no way to do your own colonoscopy. Vietnamese doctors removed a live 2-foot-long eel from a man’s abdomen — that had chewed through his intestines after he shoved it up his anus.

After inhabiting freshwater for 15-30 years of its life, it returns to the Sargasso to live out its last phase. This return to saltwater occurs after the eel has undergone a midlife metamorphosis ...

Mark: These are the eels. I mean, they start off as live eels last night, but we have them stunned so they are ready to work. Otherwise, if they were to move, the boys couldn't work on them.

European eels can grow up to a metre in length A man has been sentenced after smuggling hundreds of endangered European eels into Wales from Dublin. Kevin Forbes, from Rossa Court in Dungannon ...