CHICAGO (Reuters) - Moray eels, those snake-like predators that lurk in coral reefs, use a second set of jaws to pull prey back into their throats with deadly efficiency, researchers said on Wednesday ...

These X-rays show a moray eel's head and jaws: the top with the mouth slightly open and the bottom with the mouth wide open, revealing the second set of jaws. Moray eels have a unique way of feeding ...

This X-ray shows the pharyngeal jaws in their protracted position -- after the eel, using its oral jaws, has sunk a few teeth into its prey. Researchers say the pharyngeal jaws reach forward, grab the ...

A young evolutionary biologist who wondered how the fearsome, snakelike moray eels manage to gobble up big fish - bigger, even, than the eels' own bodies - has come upon a striking discovery. Using a ...

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Moray eels are the closest earthly thing you will get to the xenomorphs in the Alien series. Like the Giger beasts, this ambush predator has developed a terrifyingly efficient set of secondary ...

Enormous monsters scuttle across the screen in the movie "Alien," devouring humans with a second, saliva-dripping set of jaws thrust from the back of their throats. Although the creatures are ...

It’s like a scene from an “Aliens” movie: A scaly underwater creature looking something like a piranha crossed with a python strikes at its prey, which is then reeled deeper into the beast’s throat by ...

Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers at UC Davis have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray’s ...

This article is reposted from the old WordPress incarnation of Not Exactly Rocket Science. In the Alien movies, the eponymous monster killed shipmates and marines with a fearsome set of double jaws.

Moray eels have a unique way of feeding reminiscent of a science fiction thriller, researchers have discovered. After seizing prey in its jaws, a second set of jaws located in the moray's throat ...