South Florida researchers warn the Everglades face an Asian swamp eel invasion, depleting small fish and starving wading birds, threatening the wetland food web.

When you’re a predatory fish, sometimes the lunch you gobbled up doesn’t agree with you. Rather than accepting its fate, the still-living meal escapes your stomach and flees through the nearest ...

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

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 ...

X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels demonstrated that they were not content to become a predator’s meal. By Annie Roth For most animals, ending up in a predator’s stomach means all is ...

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