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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sex life of a tiny Australian marsupial known as an antechinus is already pretty bizarre. But now its mating season has gotten even stranger – and darker – thanks to the introduction of ...

A newly discovered species is being noted for its extreme mating practices that involve the males having so much sex it kills them, according to a release from Queensland University of Technology.

A type of marsupial dies in droves during mating season, but the tiny mammals currently face a much greater threat to their survival: humans. Two species of Antechinus — a genus of shrew-like animals ...

Every year, antechinus marsupials get it on until the males all drop dead. Researchers classified two new species of Dusky Antechinus, mouse-like creatures that engage in suicidal reproduction, and ...

Bragging that you can go all night? You've got nothing on the Tasman Peninsula Dusky Antechinus, a species of the small, mouse-like marsupial that was just recently discovered. Found in Australia and ...

Scientists have discovered two more species of suicidally-sexed marsupials and one is already destined for the threatened list. The team has discovered five new species of antechinus in the past three ...