From salamanders regrowing lost limbs to sea slugs rebuilding their bodies from a severed head, the natural world is full of ...

Caudal autotomy, the voluntary shedding of the tail, is a widespread antipredator strategy among lepidosaurs that allows individuals to escape predation at the cost of appendage loss. Following ...

Crabs possess a remarkable survival mechanism known as autotomy, allowing them to deliberately shed a limb when captured by a predator. Specialized fracture points in their joints enable a clean break ...