Of the 32 eels that were swallowed whole by dark sleeper fish in a recent study, nine of them successfully escaped to safety izumi yokoduka/Getty Stock image of a wild eel Eels are evading becoming ...

Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a fish's stomach after being swallowed — backing up the digestive tract then squeezing themselves out of the predator's gills. In a scientific first ...

The animal kingdom is full of animals with grand and funky defensive tactics to help them avoid being eaten by would-be predators. However, some creatures, like Japanese eels, take things to an ...

Some slimy sea creatures have a very strange way of escaping predators, even after they've been swallowed. Baby Japanese eels have been spotted escaping from the stomachs of fish that have eaten them ...

AUSTIN – A "sexually violent predator" is still on the run after escaping from a Houston halfway house Thursday. The DPS has added Ernest Leroy Smith, 46, to the Texas 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list. A ...

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 japonica) ...