For a crayfish in the Florida Everglades, its worst nightmare is three feet long, dark brown and pure muscle, with a mouth like a vacuum that sucks up nearly everything it can find — tiny fish, small ...

Well before the sun rises, scientists gather at a Florida lake looking for Asian swamp eels. The eels, along with other ...

Swamp eels are now prevalent in at least two southern states. It is believed they were brought into the US in the live food ...

Sept. 30 -- When John Curnutt first netted a catch of Asian swamp eels and dumped the slithery, brown, tubelike creatures into a bucket, he knew Florida was facing an unusually fierce invader.