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 ...

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This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (CNN) — Because of their small size, water ...

When a beetle gets swallowed up whole by a predatory frog, it's not necessarily the end of the insect's time on Earth. New research delves into how some aquatic beetles can survive being devoured by, ...

Regimbartia attenuata beetles have the ability to survive being eaten by frogs by actively crawling through the predator's digestive system and exiting through the cloaca alive. Shinji Sugiura You ...

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 ...

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 ...

The surprising escapes from near-death situations of beetles and other small animals illustrate how both prey and predators ...