When a team of researchers decided to scan some vegetable plots in a murky swamp area in western Sri Lanka, they were looking for live specimens of what vegetable farmers commonly referred to as vel anda, or the lesser swamp eel (Monopterus desilvai), a species endemic to Sri Lanka.To read full story visit: https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/from-vegetable-plots-in-a-sri-lankan-swamp-a-forgotten-eel-emerges/