Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History fish curator Sandra Raredon captured the images of thousands of fish specimens. All up, the institution, in Washington DC, has four million individual ...

Smithsonian scientists use X-ray images like this one to gather important information about the internal biology of a fish without dissecting or in any other way altering the specimen. This X-ray ...

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History fish curator Sandra Raredon captured the images of thousands of fish specimens. All up, the institution, in Washington DC, has four million individual ...

Then, they put an eel in a tank with a fish and recorded the interaction using X-ray video. Of the 32 eels that were swallowed whole by the fish and reached its stomach, 13 managed to push their ...

A predatory fish swallows you whole and you only have a few minutes to make your escape before certain death. What's an eel to do? According to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology ...

For a limited time, visitors can view striking images of a variety of fish taken with X-ray technology. More than beautiful, these images help tell the story of each species’ evolution.

X-ray videos showed that some young Japanese eels ... eels staging Houdiniesque feats of escape from inside a predatory fish. After being swallowed and deposited into the fish’s stomach, the ...