A new-to-science moray eel has been discovered lurking in the dim river mouths of the Central Indo-Pacific, inspiring a species name that’s a hat-tip to the ruler of the underworld, Hades.

In 1997, a 1.12m long Mediterranean moray eel was caught off the Waterford coast, the first member of its species to be taken in Irish waters and the most northerly moray record in the North ...

Scientists didn’t realize it right away, but they’d just caught a new species. Researchers decided to study a group of confusing moray eels found in the Indian Ocean, according to a study ...