The science journalist Ellen Ruppel Shell hadn’t given eels much thought until a Maine neighbor announced that Ms. Shell’s nearby swimming hole might be brimming with them. Because eels are by their ...

FORT POLK, La. — Squishy, slimy, wet, brown mud covered members of the Fort Polk community took part in the Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation Mud Run Sept. 24. The goopy stuff ...

I was wondering if you could tell me why, after snow melts, the mud has a “slimy” context. However, after it rains, it’s more of a packed together, “clumped” mud. The variable consistency and ...