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 ...

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 ...

But a study in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on September 9, 2024 has taken it to another level by offering the first video evidence of juvenile Japanese eels escaping after being ...

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.

Every hunter wants to know how old their banded duck or goose is. That’s maybe the coolest bit of information a hunter can learn after reporting a band. Below is a list of old timers—the ducks ...

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 ...

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 ...

After being swallowed, the eels do their best Harry Houdini impression and occasionally escape from their captors' stomachs. A team of Japanese scientists recently filmed the feat for the very first ...

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 ...

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 ...