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 ...

A Japanese beetle survives being eaten by a frog more than 90 per cent of the time by squeezing out of its predator's rectum. Incredible footage shows a small aquatic beetle being squeezed from the ...

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. Meet the ...

The nice thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food—just gulp, and down the hatch. The problematic thing about being a frog is that you don’t have to chew your food, which means ...

A researcher fed beetles to frogs. The encounter did not end as expected. By Katherine J. Wu It’s a familiar story: Predator hunts prey. Predator catches prey. Predator gulps down prey. Usually, ...