Never piss off a moray eel, warns George Burgess, a marine biologist at the Florida Museum of Natural History. "Just like how you don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t get too close to a moray eel," ...

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Videos filmed by divers show that choking, blinding and sacrificing limbs are all in the cephalopods’ repertoire. By Joshua Rapp Learn The conger eel was the favorite, weighing at least three times ...

A stunning video has captured the moment an octopus battled an eel in a California tide pool. The video was captured by UC Berkeley postdoctoral researcher E. Anne Chambers, while she was tide pooling ...

Hot damn. A snorkeler in Hawaii stumbled on this underwater scrap between an octopus and a terrifying moray eel and it looks like it’s going to be a tangled fight to death. The moray eel looks like it ...

A nocturnal predator which has developed a keen sense of smell due to poor eyesight, the moray eel feeds on damsel fish and cardinal fish hiding within the coral reefs. The octopus is another victim ...