A new study shows how the aquatic beetle Regimbartia attenuata can survive after being gulped down by a frog. Yes, this is the kind of world we live in. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being swallowed alive by a frog is a death sentence for most insects, but one beetle species shrugs off being digested and instead finds freedom by sneaking out through its captor's anus. When the ...

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 ...

(CNN) — Because of their small size, water beetles might have been kicked around since they were born — but thanks to abnormal survival strategies, they’re “stayin’ alive” after predators eat them.

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

It’s a familiar story: Predator hunts prey. Predator catches prey. Predator gulps down prey. Usually, that’s it. But the water scavenger beetle Regimbartia attenuata says, “Not today.” After getting ...

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 ...

This is an Inside Science story. Scientists have for the first time seen prey survive getting eaten by actively making their way through a predator's entire digestive tract and escaping out the other ...

DENVER—A new frog-legged beetle species, Pulchritudo attenboroughi, or Attenborough’s Beauty, was announced today in the scientific journal “Papers in Palaeontology.” Frank Krell, Denver Museum of ...