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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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.

after they swallowed juvenile Anguilla japonica eels. The eels were injected with a contrast agent to enhance their visibility. It took the researchers a year to gather enough clear footage of the ...

A study published in PeerJ Life and Environment has uncovered alarming levels of seafood mislabeling and the use of ambiguous ...

BRUSSELS, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A scientific report released last week suggests a major breakthrough in tackling illegal trafficking of European eels. It illustrates how a more holistic ...