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. We’ve all eaten something that seems to run ...
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 ...
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 ...
Researchers in Japan say in new study the aquatic beetle regimbartia attenuata actively stimulates the gut of the frog pelophylax nigromaculatus after being eaten in order to facilitate its escape ...
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 ...
Being swallowed alive by a frog is a death sentence for most insects, but one beetle species shrugs off being digested and instead finds freedom by sneaking out through its captor's anus. When 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 ...