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 ...

We’ve all eaten something that seems to run right through us, but rarely do our meals get to live another day once they leave our bodies. Yet that’s exactly what happens when frogs snack on 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 ...

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 ...

This is an Inside Science story. Scientists have for the first time seen prey survive getting eaten by actively making their way through a predator's entire digestive tract and escaping out the other ...

Regimbartia attenuata, a species of water scavenger beetle, is able to survive a frog’s digestive tract without taking damage. Here’s your gross show for the day, folks: It’s a frog pooping out a live ...

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 ...