After being swallowed alive, Japanese eels were able to escape from a predator fish’s stomach and swim to freedom through the fish’s gills, new research shows.

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Image of the eel escaping from the fish's gills. Videos using X-rays have discovered exactly how the eels do this. Hasegawa et al./Current Biology ...

In this new study, the team used an X-ray videography device to see inside of the predatory fish Odontobutis obscura–aka the dark sleeper. ... 13 managed to get their tails out the fish gill.

Of those, 13 managed to get their tails out the fish gill, and nine successfully escaped through the gills. On average, it took the escaping eels about 56 seconds to free themselves from the ...

Japanese eels use burrowing and swimming motions to move around the seafloor—and to escape from inside the stomach of a predator. Tommy Hui via iNaturalist under CC BY-NC 4.0. Prey animals have ...

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 ...

An eel inside the digestive tract of a dark sleeper fish before its escape attempt. ... 13 managed to push their tail out of the fish's gill and nine made a successful escape.