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 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.

Researchers determined in a new study that Japanese eels can escape a predator fish's stomach through a ... which were then — one at a time — placed inside "experimental tanks" with predator fish.

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.

In 2021, Yuha Hasegawa, then a graduate student at Nagasaki University, released a young Japanese eel into a tank with a dark sleeper, a predatory river-dwelling fish. He watched as the small eel ...

Cody Pilachowski, a student at Mountain View School, looks at bugs the American eels would eat during a presentation by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service as part of a eels in the classroom project.

Of 32 eels that were filmed being swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish (Odontobutis obscura), 12 managed to go back up the gullet far enough to bend their tail around and get it out of a gill slit ...

KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia — Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle ...

A 4-year-old girl in Kerala noticed translucent fish with visible bones in tank, identified by scientists as new species: Juhu’s pigmy eel-loach, study said.

Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap in Cambodia, Southeast ...

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.