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 ...

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 ...

All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males' testes disintegrate before a mammoth sex session that ends in them dying from organ failure. When you purchase ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What makes antechinus reproduction so unique? Sleep is essential for most creatures, but to these marsupials, mating is the priority. While a lack of sleep is known in humans to decrease health, mood, ...

Two newly-discovered species of marsupial have been placed on the endangered list because the males are killing themselves by having too much violent, long sex. The men of both species, discovered ...

These lecherous little critters literally go out with a bang. Meet the Australian antechinus, a promiscuous marsupial known for its killer sex protocol — and then being cannibalized so the others can ...