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 ...

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 ...

Japanese eels try to wriggle back out of the stomachs of fish that have swallowed them whole – and now we know how they sometimes succeed. A few years ago, Yuha Hasegawa at Nagasaki University ...

Scientists in Japan have discovered that Japanese eels can escape from the digestive tract of predatory dark sleeper fish after being swallowed. The eels move backward up the predator's digestive ...

For the first time, scientists witnessed Japanese eels free themselves from the stomach of a predatory fish in X-ray video footage Alexa Robles-Gil Daily Correspondent Japanese eels use burrowing ...

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 ...

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 scientific first, researchers have captured astonishing video of young Japanese eels escaping after being swallowed by a predatory fish. Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a ...

But a new study has taken it to another level by offering the first video evidence of juvenile Japanese eels escaping after being swallowed into the stomachs of their fish predators. Many prey ...

Your donation makes it possible for us to keep doing this important work, keeping you informed every step of the way to the November election Researchers found that the eels insert the tips of ...