Ultimate sacrifice: Spider’s post-sex cannibalism aids offspring
Friday, October 7, 2016 - 10:51
in Biology & Nature
The male dark fishing spider is just dying to father some children – and this death wish probably evolved to benefit his offspring, according to new research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Gonzaga University. In 2013, Steven Schwartz and his colleagues reported that the male dark fishing spider begins to curl up and die […]