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.

You know how good fish is for your health, but that's only true if you're eating the right kind. Here are the ones to feast ...

Interviews with colorful industry figures including Sara Rademaker, who runs the only sustainable eel farm in the U.S., reveal more fascinating facts about the “slippery beasts.” For example ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...