In a fast-flowing spring in southern China, a predatory species was discovered for the first time. Jayden Pang via Unsplash The Pearl River criss-crosses southern China, meeting the Pacific Ocean just ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Japanese eels try to wriggle back out of the stomachs of fish that have swallowed them whole – and now we know how they sometimes succeed. A few years ago, Yuha Hasegawa at Nagasaki University in ...

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The Pearl River criss-crosses southern China, meeting the Pacific Ocean just outside of Hong Kong. Small tributaries flow from the surrounding regions of the Pearl River basin, returning water to the ...

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) ...