Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a fish's stomach after being swallowed — backing up the digestive tract ...

X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal.

Skin-secreted adhesives, or glues, are highly effective defense adaptations that have evolved recurrently in a small number ...

For many creatures, having a limb caught in a predator’s mouth is usually a death sentence. Not starfish, though—they can ...

Per the authors, this is the first such study to observe the behavioral patterns and escape processes of prey within the ...

Many prey species have defensive tactics to escape being eaten by their would-be predators. But a new study has taken it to another level by offering the first video evidence of juvenile Japanese eels ...

REMARKABLE new footage has revealed the miraculous escape young eels make after they’ve been swallowed alive by predator fish ...

“At the beginning of the experiment, we speculated that eels would escape directly from the predator’s mouth to the gill. "However, contrary to our expectations, witnessing the eels ...

The starfish use their sticky tube feet to climb on top of their prey and then by pushing their stomach out through their mouth devour it ... Students can look for other examples of predator prey ...

Baby Japanese eels have been spotted escaping from the stomachs of fish that have eaten them by backing out tail-first, as if ...

Researchers determined in a new study that Japanese eels can escape a predator fish's stomach through a unique exit route ...

Many prey species have defensive tactics to escape being eaten by their would-be predators. But a study in the Cell Press ...