The next time you stub your toe, get pricked with a needle, or have your fingers jammed in the lid of a piano, you might pause to consider the marvellous way our bodies are able to heal such injuries.

A tree frog (Dryophytes japonica) spitting out a male wasp (Anterhynchium gibbifrons) after being stung (by pseudo-stings). Credit: Current Biology/Sugiura et al. A tree frog (Dryophytes japonica) ...

Certain species of wasps and frogs share a pain and inflammation peptide similar to one found in vertebrates to help defend against predators – a discovery researchers say contributes to a shifting ...

Hughey, Myra C., Nicolas, Angie, Vonesh, James R., and Warkentin, Karen M. 2012. "Wasp predation drives the assembly of fungal and fly communities on frog egg masses ...