Japanese eels have found an ingenious way to escape a fish's stomach after being swallowed — backing up the digestive tract then squeezing themselves out of the predator's gills. In a scientific first ...

The fizzy, yellow-colored drink contains extracts from the head and bones of eel and five vitamins  A, B1, B2, D and E  contained in the fish.It”s the hottest season of the year in Japan, and that ...

TOKYO (AP) — The Japanese eel, a popular summertime delicacy that has become prohibitively expensive due to overfishing, has been put on the international conservation “red list” in a move that may ...

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 ...

TOKYO >> The European Union could imperil Japan’s imported supply of affordably priced eel with a proposal to make all 19 eel species subject to trade regulations under the Convention on International ...

An electric eel is being used to light up a Christmas tree at a Japanese aquarium.Not even a blackout could put a damper on festivities at one Japanese aquarium where an electric eel is being used to ...

At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across Japan, is also ...

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, snakelike creatures that lay millions of eggs before dying so their offspring can return home to rivers and streams. They’ve existed ...

KAMISATO: At an eel restaurant near Tokyo, four friends sit down to eat a Japanese delicacy now the subject of a heated international debate as its numbers decline. The eel, hugely popular across ...