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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Tadpoles are to frogs as oranges are to apples. They are so very different, University of Cincinnati Professor Daniel Buchholz said. In his biology lab, he and his students are using a National ...