the froglets (the term for a frog that is no longer a tadpole but isn’t fully grown) of this species hide in plain sight—by camouflaging themselves to look like a blob of poop. Adult Wallace ...

After getting swallowed by a frog, this plucky little insect can scuttle down the amphibian’s gut and force it to poop — emerging slightly soiled, but very much alive. The bug’s transit ...

Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs (Kurixalus eiffingeri), scientists report September 22 in Ecology.

The Crater Mountain Treehole frog also has brown-white coloring that resembles bird droppings. Like the Wallace flying frog, it becomes green as an adult. “It’s interesting that the little ...

Of course, one has to wonder how the beetle gets the frogs to poop them out in a timely manner. "Further experiments are needed to investigate how to stimulate the frogs to defecate," Sugiura told ...

A researcher in Japan has identified an incredible escape behavior in a species of beetle that is often eaten by frogs. The beetle actively crawls its way through the frog’s body and finds the ...

Experts believe the amphibians use this to camouflage themselves "as animal droppings" to escape animals which want to eat them, according to a new study. A team of researchers studying the frogs ...

This leads him to suspect the insects use their legs to stimulate the frogs' digestive tracts, urging them to poop. The struggle to escape may at times cause the beetles to lose their legs.