Imagine you’re a Japanese eel, swimming around just minding your own business when—bam! A predatory fish swallows you whole and you only have a few minutes to make your escape before certain death.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. 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, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Snake eels, a group of slender, sinuous fish, can perform a gruesome escape after they are ...

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 ...

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 ...