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, ...

Inspiration can come from the most unlikely places, as fantasy author Ursula Vernon, aka T. Kingfisher, clearly knows. Vernon won the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novel this past weekend for her dark ...

In a video taken by ecologist Shinji Sugiura, a tiny aquatic beetle known as Regimbartia attenuata pulls off a death-defying feat to rival Houdini. First, a frog snags the beetle and gulps it down ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...