At this time of year, the undergrowth is a hive of activity as mouse-sized marsupial carnivores called antechinus come together for a once-in-a-lifetime mating ritual — literally. Australia is home to ...

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 ...

Some animals reproduce only once before dying. This life strategy, called semelparity, sees organisms channel all energy into ...

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 ...

'A forest with bonobos has never been so quiet': Most extreme case of violence in 'hippie' species recorded, with females ganging up on male in unprecedented attack Some naked mole rats are designated ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the forests of Australia, every year just before spring, there erupts a sexual frenzy unlike any other on Earth. It’s bigger than an ultra-romantic Neil Diamond concert, bigger even than spring ...