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

Japanese eels still have a way out even after they've been eaten: they swim back out through the predator's gills and live to ...

Video of eels wiggling out of predator’s stomach stuns scientists - Japanese eels take an average of under a minute to escape ...

In a scientific first, researchers have captured astonishing video of young Japanese eels escaping after being swallowed by a ...

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 ...

Many prey species have defensive tactics to escape being eaten by their would-be predators. But a study in the Cell Press ...

Many prey species have defensive tactics to escape being eaten by their would-be predators. But a study published in Current ...

Researchers at Nagasaki University have captured the first video proof of the Japanese eel's unique survival tactic.

A study published on Monday, Sept. 9, in the journal Current Biology has found that, while the Japanese eel (or Anguilla japonica) might be prey to dark sleeper fish (Odontobutis obscura), the ...

Many prey species have defensive tactics to escape being eaten by their would-be predators. But a new study has taken it to another level by offering the first video evidence of juvenile Japanese eels ...