This Spider Destroys Female Genitalia to Prevent Future Mating

Monday, November 9, 2015 - 04:34 in Biology & Nature

Some orb-weaving spiders secure their fatherhood by mutilating their partners’ genitalia—the first such discovery in nature, a new study says.

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