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 ...

The world’s largest freshwater fishery is drying up - locals look to eels for help - The Mekong Basin is the world’s largest ...

with annual production of 40,000 to 50,000 juvenile eels now possible. Japan’s annual eel consumption is estimated at around 100 million, and agency officials said they are just one step away ...

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 ...

Imagine you're a Japanese eel, swimming around just minding your own business when—bam! A predatory fish swallows you whole and you only have a few minutes to make your escape before certain death.

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 ...

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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a fish's stomach after being swallowed ...

Eels are evading becoming supper by slipping out of hungry predators. A study published on Monday, Sept. 9, in the journal Current Biology has found that, while the Japanese eel (or Anguilla ...