NAGASAKI—A team of researchers here has captured astonishing X-ray footage of young eels making a dramatic, Houdini-like escape from the stomach of a large predatory fish. After being swallowed ...

Dark sleeper fish (Odontobutis obscura) can gulp down young Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) whole, but the swallowed eels can wriggle back up through the digestive tract and out of the stomach ...

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. Researchers found that the eels insert the tips of their tails in the food pipe and the gills of the predator fish before pulling their heads free.

X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal. By Annie Roth For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means ...

Baby Japanese eels have been spotted escaping from the stomachs of fish that have eaten them by backing out tail-first, as if moonwalking, first out of their esophagus and then their gills ...

a highly acidic and oxygen-deprived environment that kills the eels within 211.9 seconds (a little over three minutes). Thirty-two of the eels were eaten, and of those, 13 (or 40.6 percent ...

Some teenage Japanese eels have found a way to avoid becoming a fish’s next meal. Anguilla japonica eels can escape a predator’s stomach through the fish’s gills. Now, scientists are using X ...

Of the 32 eels that were swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish in a recent study, nine of them successfully escaped to safety izumi yokoduka/Getty Eels are evading becoming supper by slipping out ...

Most people know the Japanese eel in its grilled form: unagi. Unlike many other fish in Japanese cuisine, eel is always cooked. There's a very good reason for this. The animal contains a protein toxin ...

Japanese researchers have captured an eel escaping from the stomach of a fish ... Snails have been known to survive the entire digestive system of a bird, popping out the other side relatively ...