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Green spoonworm: The female tentacle monsters that turn males into ‘living testicles’
Name: Green spoonworm (Bonellia viridis) Where it lives: Seabeds in the northeast Atlantic, from the Mediterranean to northern Norway What…
Read More »Females sleep less, awaken more frequently than males
Females sleep less, wake up more often and get less restorative sleep than males, according to a new animal study…
Read More »Antechinus: The tiny marsupials where males have sex until they die — then females eat their corpses
Name: Antechinus (Antechinus) Where it lives: Australia What it eats: Insects, spiders, centipedes and sometimes frogs and small reptiles Why…
Read More »Sharks in an Italian aquarium keep having ‘virgin birth’ after years without males
Captive female sharks at an aquarium in Italy keep reproducing on their own with no males involved, indicating that it…
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