Female praying mantises often attack their mates during a sexual encounter, but some males attack too – and if they fail to win the fight they end up as lunch Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2265210-male-mantises-fight-females-to-mate-but-they-get-eaten-if-they-lose/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
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Discovery of endangered female turtle provides hope for extremely rare species
There are now two known Swinhoe’s softshell turtles, one male and one female, and potentially more waiting to be discovered. Source: https://www.livescience.com/endangered-female-turtle-discovered.html
What Are You Paying For in a $300 Chess Set? Mostly the Knights
If you bought a wooden chess set after watching “The Queen’s Gambit,” the price you paid was most likely dictated by just four pieces. From a report: The knights alone can account for as much as 50 percent of the cost of a nice wooden set. While the rest of the pieces can be machine-made, the knights are carved by hand…
Baboons that live together in tight-knit groups have similar ‘accents’
Male Guinea baboons that live in gangs produce grunts that sound more like one another than those outside their group, similar to human accents Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2263087-baboons-that-live-together-in-tight-knit-groups-have-similar-accents/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
A Private Company Has a Crew Going To the ISS Next Year
Axiom Space has signed three private astronauts to join former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-AlegrÃa on Ax-1, the first private mission into orbit and to the International Space Station. From a report: In March, Axiom Space announced plans to launch “history’s first fully private human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station.” The mission, dubbed Ax-1, would go forward using SpaceX’s Crew…
Some male spiders tie up females before mating to avoid being eaten
Thanatus fabricii spiders forego courtship dances: instead, they attack females and bind them with silk before mating, perhaps because the females would otherwise eat the males Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2259794-some-male-spiders-tie-up-females-before-mating-to-avoid-being-eaten/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Body Found In Canada Identified As Neo-Nazi Spam King
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Krebs On Security: The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke, a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. in 1999, according to news reports. Homicide detectives said they originally…
Here are 3 amazing feats of spiders
Halloween time is spider time. Three amazing spider skills you might not have known about. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/three-amazing-feats-of-spiders…
Some male fish use their tails to fan rivals’ sperm away from eggs
To boost their chances of fertilising a nest-load of eggs, male dusky frillgoby fish use their tailfin to fan away the sperm deposited by rivals Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2257736-some-male-fish-use-their-tails-to-fan-rivals-sperm-away-from-eggs/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Half-male, half-female songbird discovered in Pennsylvania
A rose-breasted grosbeak that was captured in a Pennsylvania nature reserve is a bilateral gynandromorph — male on the right side and female on the left side. Source: https://www.livescience.com/half-male-half-female-bird.html