Kobe University ecologist SUGIURA Shinji found that the aquatic beetle Regimbartia attenuata can actively escape from the vent of the frog Pelophylax nigromaculatus via the digestive system.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Regimbartia attenuata beetles have the ability to survive being eaten by frogs by actively crawling through the predator's ...

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 ...

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 ...

Prey can evade predators and also avoid attacks. However, some can escape after a successful attack, that is, from inside a predator after being swallowed. For example, some animals that can survive ...