The Mekong Basin is the world’s largest freshwater fishery, with nearly 20% of all freshwater fish worldwide caught there, ...

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 ...

NAGASAKI—A team of researchers here has captured astonishing X-ray footage of young eels making a dramatic, Houdini-like escape from the stomach of a large predatory fish. After being swallowed ...

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 Eels are evading becoming supper by slipping out ...

A swimmer had a remarkably calm encounter with a giant eel while enjoying a leisurely dip off the coast of Jupiter, Florida. A video, captured by 44-year-old Tamara Barbosa, the on-site manager ...

However, some creatures, like Japanese eels, take things to an entirely different level by waiting to be eaten and then escaping from the predator’s stomach. Then, once they’ve made their way ...

For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means all is lost. But not for Japanese eels. In a study published Monday in the journal Current Biology, scientists filmed juvenile Japanese ...

Ever wondered how to cook a frozen beef tenderloin in the wild? Watch as we fry up this juicy, perfectly seared tenderloin ...