(CNN) — Because of their small size, water beetles might have been kicked around since they were born — but thanks to abnormal survival strategies, they’re “stayin’ alive” after predators eat them.

It’s a new kind of dung beetle. Beetles have an unorthodox way to escape frogs after getting eaten — by ducking out the back door, according to a Japanese study published in the journal Current ...

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 ...

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When a beetle gets swallowed up whole by a predatory frog, it's not necessarily the end of the insect's time on Earth. New research delves into how some aquatic beetles can survive being devoured by, ...

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 ...

Here’s your gross show for the day, folks: It’s a frog pooping out a live (yes, live!) beetle. And no, this is not some random backyard experiment or miniature David Blaine magic trick. The below ...