For most insects, the sticky, slingshot ride straight into a frog’s mouth spells the end. But not for one stubborn water beetle. Instead of succumbing to the frog’s digestive juices, an eaten ...

It’s a new kind of dung beetle. Beetles have an unorthodox way to escape frogs after getting eaten — by ducking out the back door, according to a Japanese study published in the journal Current ...

Research shows insects can fight their way through a predator's digestive tract. This is an Inside Science story. Scientists have for the first time seen prey survive getting eaten by actively making ...

Inspiration can come from the most unlikely places, as fantasy author Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher, clearly knows. Vernon won the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel this past weekend for her dark ...

Here’s your gross show for the day, folks: It’s a frog pooping out a live (yes, live!) beetle. And no, this is not some random backyard experiment or miniature David Blaine magic trick. The below ...

Researchers in Japan say in new study the aquatic beetle regimbartia attenuata actively stimulates the gut of the frog pelophylax nigromaculatus after being eaten in order to facilitate its escape ...

For the first time, a prey insect — in this case, a water beetle — was observed to successfully escape the wrath of its predator after being eaten alive, using its tiny legs to crawl through its ...

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POISON dart frogs and some tropical bird species become poisonous by eating beetles that are laced with toxins, new research suggests. Some frog species, such as those belonging to the South American ...

What’s the best way to keep from being eaten: Keep mustering new defenses, or create a single overwhelming one and warn potential attackers that they’ll be sorry? BOTH APPROACHES SEEM to work, ...