NAGASAKI—A team of researchers here has captured astonishing X-ray footage of young eels making a dramatic, Houdini-like escape from the stomach of a large predatory fish. After being swallowed ...

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The patient was immediately examined and underwent several imaging tests, including an X-ray that showed the eel’s skeleton lying inside his abdominal cavity. Doctors attempted to remove the ...