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 ...

Of the 32 eels that were swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish in a recent study, nine of them successfully escaped to safety ...

Researchers found that juvenile Japanese eels escape predators by reversing through the digestive tract using their tails.

These eels—Anguilla japonica—were previously found to escape from the bellies of fish, but their exact escape technique was only observed in detail for the first time thanks to the use of X ...

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 ...

In a new study published in Current Biology on Monday, researchers from Nagasaki University in Japan filmed as juvenile Japanese eels (Anguilla japonica) escaped from the stomach of a dark sleeper ...

After being swallowed alive, Japanese eels were able to escape from a predator fish’s stomach and swim to freedom through the fish’s gills, new research shows.

Anguilla japonica eels can escape a predator’s stomach through the fish’s gills. Now, scientists are using X-ray videography to watch just how eels accomplish this.