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 ...

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During the breeding season, time is not on a male antechinus’s side. These carnivorous marsupials, which resemble a mousy shrew, have just three weeks to mate with as many females as possible. They ...

For a small number of animals, reproduction marks a biological endpoint rather than a stage in an ongoing life cycle. Death follows mating with such consistency that it can be predicted within a ...