For most insects, the sticky, slingshot ride straight into a frog’s mouth spells the end. But not for one stubborn water beetle. Instead of succumbing to the frog’s digestive juices, an eaten ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...