New marsupial species fights ferociously for sex, then dies

Tuesday, June 2, 2015 - 13:30 in Biology & Nature

Stephen FellerBRISBANE, Australia, June 2 (UPI) -- Researchers in Australia discovered two new types of marsupial that mate almost continuously for two or three weeks before the males' bodies give out on them.

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