Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Some slimy sea creatures have a very strange way of escaping predators, even after they've been swallowed. Baby Japanese ...

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 of ...

The Everglades is full of invasive and native species, but this one threw us off. We netted an eel like fish with a strange shape and markings we do not recognize. It looked rare, and it might even be ...

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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 ...

Invasive Asian swamp eels are spreading in South Florida canals. UF wants the public's help to track this threat to native ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Some teenage Japanese eels have found a way to avoid becoming a ...

KAMPONG PHLUK, Cambodia (AP) — Em Phat, 53, studies his eel tanks with the intensity of a man gambling with his livelihood. For millennia, fishermen like him have relied on the bounty of the Tonle Sap ...