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 […]

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