Regimbartia attenuata beetles have the ability to survive being eaten by frogs by actively crawling through the predator's digestive system and exiting through the cloaca alive. Shinji Sugiura You ...

A common response to predators is to go still. Complete, immediate stillness. This isn’t hesitation. It’s strategy. Movement draws attention. Stillness reduces visibility. For animals, fleeing can be ...

Predators are typically larger, faster, and more powerful than the animals they hunt. Yet in nature, most attacks fail. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by ...

What if the eyes of an animal you are looking at are not real at all? Across forests, oceans, and grasslands, several animals ...

Many animals survive predation by running, fighting, or hiding. However, some take a much stranger approach: they play dead.

When danger approaches, many creatures seem to follow the ancient proverb that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” Researchers have recently been finding subtle ways that animals communicate with ...

You might think that an insect being swallowed by a predator would mark the end of that critter’s life story. But for some, it’s no big deal. From crawling back up the digestive tract of their ...