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Green Moray Eels have brown skin covered in yellow mucus giving them their green hue. The thick mucus protects their skin from parasites and disease.

Despite their serpent-like appearance and lack of pectoral and pelvic fins, scales, or gill covers, Moray Eels are fish. They may look scary, but Morays are actually surprisingly timid.

Due to their poor eyesight, they often seek out holes to hide from predators and wait to ambush prey, which they find using two tube-like nostrils on their nose and small, taste bud-like structures on their lower jaw.