News Headline
New marsupial species fights ferociously for sex, then dies
Source
United Press International (UPI)
Publication Date
2015-06-03
BRISBANE, Australia, June 2 (UPI) -- The males of two new species of dusky antechinus discovered in Australia spend their annual mating season coupling with as many females as possible and then die within weeks -- yet that isn't what threatens the species' existence.