Male antechinuses live through just a single, extremely intense mating season. So to maximize their chances at sex, these little carnivorous marsupials waste as little time on sleep as possible, new ...
What if I told you that in Australia, a mouselike marsupial called antechinus breeds so manically during its three-week mating season that the males bleed internally and go blind, until every male ...
MEET the antechinus, a mouse-like marsupial that literally disintegrates by having too much sex. The little fella goes at it nonstop for a few weeks, then dies. Why? This mouse-like marsupial, called ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The bristly, sex-crazed antechinus has two previously unknown species in its family, a new study ...
Two chubby marsupial species that would literally die for sex (albeit 14-hour sessions) have been discovered Down Under, researchers now report. The new species are types of antechinus, a bristly ...
Out with a bang Sperm competition drives suicidal reproduction in antechinus and other marsupials, according to a new study by Australian researchers. The research, which was published in the journal ...
Unfortunately for scientists, it's almost irrelevant what fascinating new research they publish on the tiny antechinus, because headline-hungry journalists will almost always lead with its lethal ...
This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In a fairy tale by the brothers Grimm, a pied piper’s music lures rats to their doom. What leads the mouselike creature ...
MEET the antechinus, a mouse-like marsupial that literally disintegrates by having too much sex. The little fella goes at it nonstop for a few weeks, then dies. Why? This mouse-like marsupial, called ...
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