Have you ever been so hungry that you don’t even bother to chew? That kind of approach is an everyday thing for cormorants, a family of seabirds that dine exclusively on fish and swallow them whole.

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 ...

The world’s rivers and lakes are home to some truly massive and intimidating fish, many of which look more than capable of taking down a human. From the enormous Wels catfish and alligator gar to the ...

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 ...

A mother encourages her daughter to fully open her mouth to swallow a live fish holding “the medicine” she believes will help cure her child’s asthma, as scores clamor about, gulping down their own ...

Neotropic Comorant or Olivaceous Cormorant (Nannopterum brasilianum) eating a fish in the Pantanal Wetlands in Brazil© Henk Bogaard/Shutterstock.com Have you ever been so hungry that you don't even ...