![Steven Schwartz, a post-doctoral researcher, discovered that the mating habits of dark fishing spiders include both cannibalism and male self-sacrifice.](https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/files/file33934.jpg)
Schwartz reveals spider's self-destructive mating habits
Steven Schwartz, a post-doctoral researcher in biological sciences, discovered that the mating habits of dark fishing spiders include both cannibalism and male self-sacrifice. The researcher, co-authored by William Wagner and Eileen Hebets, was published in Royal Society Biology Letters this month. Continue reading…