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  • CLONED CRAYFISH ACCIDENTALLY CREATED IN AN AQUARIUM ARE CONQUERING THE WORLD

    06/12/2022 6:17:55 PM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 21 replies
    SYFY ^ | 11 June 2022 | Cassidy Ward
    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...
  • Crayfish cuts off its own claw to survive being boiled alive

    06/06/2018 2:03:30 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 11 replies
    metro.co.uk ^ | 3 Jun 2018 10:53 pm | Tom HerbertSunday
    The crayfish cut its own claw of to survive being boiled alive (Picture: Jiuke) _______________________________________________________________________ A crayfish made a remarkable bid for freedom after cutting off its own claw to escape a boiling pot of soup. The desperate animal was filmed sacrificing its own limb to survive being boiled alive at a restaurant in China. Posted on Chinese social media site Weibo by a user called Jiuke, the crayfish is seen struggling to escape the spicy soup. The heroic crayfish then slices off its own claw before wriggling away to freedom. The clip has racked up more than a million...