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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A beautiful new species of carnivorous marsupial has been discovered in far south-eastern Queensland and adjacent north-eastern New South Wales. Isolated at high altitude on the Tweed volcanic caldera ...

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 ...