Posted on 06/12/2022 6:17:55 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Over the last few decades, the planet has been at the mercy of a ten-legged, many-clawed crustacean ravenously creating a clone army bent on world domination. No, it isn’t an interplanetary interloper or the result of an uncontained government experiment. This is biology gone wrong, or if you happen to be a marbled crayfish, biology gone horribly right.
What’s unusual is that instead of the expected two copies of their chromosomes, marbled crayfish have three. Their genetic composition is similar to the Slough crayfish, a close relative, leading scientists to conclude that the first marbled crayfish was born through an unusual reproductive happenstance when two Slough crayfish mated.
What’s more, it appears that the Slough parents hail from different parts of the world, making it unlikely that they met in the wild. Instead, it’s believed they might have been dropped in the same aquarium tank and met in captivity where they would later give birth to their unusual progeny.
It’s a worthwhile strategy. Once they find their way into an ecosystem, there’s likely no stopping them. A single individual can lay 700 eggs, all copies of itself, and they can survive drought conditions by burrowing into the ground and migrate over land. All the while, they outcompete and reduce the numbers of endemic species.
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"Son of a gun, We'll have good fun on the bayou Jambalaya, a crawfish pie and a filé gumbo"
Whatever. I, for one, welcome our new overlords. Can’t be any worse than what we have.
I don’t believe Hank done it this a’way
“A single individual can lay 700 eggs, all copies of itself, and they can survive drought conditions by burrowing into the ground and migrate over land. All the while, they outcompete and reduce the numbers of endemic species.”
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so they’re the illegals of the sea?
Well, we missed the murder hornets so skynet crawdads will have to do.
So, when does this movie come out??
Yes!
That’s what I was thinking. Send in some Cajuns and problem solved.
—”Can’t be any worse than what we have.”
You got that right!!!
We stand a fighting chance if they are tasty and edible.
Do not worry. Coonasses will figure out how to reduce the population quickly! ;-)
This just in—Resident Joseph “BigGuy” Bite’em appointed a Czar and Czarina (the same person) to oversee the management of mutant crayfish as a primary food source; it is being reported that within 20 minutes of the appointment, shortages and distribution problems emerged, and the world is now faced with the immanent extinction of the species, and the resulting starvation of untold billions of humans. Bill Gates and the WEF issued a resounding congratulations on the impending holocaust.
Who’s going to win - the cloned crayfish or Klaus Schwab?
klaus may be a cloned crayfish
Das some tasty GMO food right dere, I done tol you.
The lesson nature has taught us again and again is that it is only a matter of time before some organism find the weakness of the large population of genetic twins. As soon as some virus or bacteria finds it, the whole population will quickly die out. The hand wringers will probably wring their hands about that just like they do for their runaway growth.
Regards,
Democrats!
aaaaaaiiiieeee!!
start selling ‘em tony cachere’s seasoning, crawfish boil spices, add some small potatoees, some short ears of corn, and ya get a big pot!
there is aa youtuber that is funnny as all, but will show you what to do!!
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