Category: Nature Gets Kinky

• What strange animal penises teach us about humans

  

  “Once evolution settles on a penis, the possibilities multiply.”

  The Conversation

  8 December 2025

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Shagged out: How virus-infected queen bees end up getting ditched

  

  Apparently laying thousands of eggs every day isn’t enough for some insects.

  The Conversation

  24 November 2025

  Nature Gets Kinky

• The queen ant who gets pregnant to other species

  

  Six-legged slapper or reproductive genius? You decide.

  The Conversation

  8 October 2025

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Ducking hell: 5 ways humans have ruined sex for animals

  

  You won’t believe what we did to the bears.

  The Conversation

  19 February 2025

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Spiders listen through their legs to get laid, here’s how

  

  Bring me the airborne sex pheromones!

  The Conversation

  8 January 2025

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Peacock spiders have a hot sexy mating dance, but Perth is killing them off

  

  Only 5mm, but size isn’t everything.

  The Conversation

  28 October 2024

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Slug sex secrets: Behold the mucus rope hermaphrodite

  

  Not as sluggish as you might think.

  The Conversation

  6 September 2024

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Why putting rats on the pill might not help

  

  Rodent contraception has its challenges.

  The Conversation

  20 August 2024

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Insect sex lives exposed

  

  Detachable penises and giant sperm is just the start.

  The Conversation

  2 July 2024

  Nature Gets Kinky

• Pregnant male pipefish: Meet one of New Zealand’s weirdest animals

  

  Wanna see you wiggle it, just a little bit.

  The Conversation

  23 April 2024

  Nature Gets Kinky