Deadly spider dubbed ‘Big Boy’
An international team of scientists has revised the classification of Australia’s most famous spider, the Sydney funnel-web. With a bite more deadly to humans than that […]
Quite a sting in this tale
A study has found some surprising features in two new species of burrowing scorpions, including a very strangely shaped ‘tail tip’ and some ‘sexy’ anatomy features. […]
When climate changes affect mating games
Being wary of taking gifts from strange males takes on a new meaning among a South American spider species known to woo females with silk-wrapped food […]
How funnel-webs practise safe sex
he complex mating rituals of the Sydney funnel-web spider have now been described in detail for the first time, with sexual routines including leg and body […]
Sizing up rodent mating evolution
A new study has found the distribution of females in 33 species of Australian rodents affects the evolution of testes size of males in these social […]