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Japanese researchers have captured an eel escaping from the stomach of a fish through its gills. While there have been other digestive tract escapes from animals, this is the first to be captured on X ...

Eels are slippery escape artists, and can even break free from the stomachs of fish - Copyright AFP - Eels are slippery escape artists, and can even break free from ...

X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal. By Annie Roth For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means all is ...

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.

When you’re a predatory fish, sometimes the lunch you gobbled up doesn’t agree with you. Rather than accepting its fate, the still-living meal escapes your stomach and flees through the nearest ...