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This Mutant Crayfish Clones Itself, and It’s Taking Over Europe
nytimes.com ^
| 2/6/2018
| Carl Zimmer
Posted on 02/07/2018 8:57:57 AM PST by rktman
Frank Lyko, a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center, studies the six-inch-long marbled crayfish. Finding specimens is easy: Dr. Lyko can buy the crayfish at pet stores in Germany, or he can head with colleagues to a nearby lake.
Wait till dark, switch on head lamps, and wander into the shallows. The marbled crayfish will emerge from hiding and begin swarming around your ankles.
“It’s extremely impressive,” said Dr. Lyko. “Three of us once caught 150 animals within one hour, just with our hands.”
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: boilem; mudbugs
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Maybe y'all need to contact some coonasses to show y'all what to do wit dem mudbugs. Let me introduce you to my little friend. Boiling pot, water, Zatarains, red taters, corn on the cob, onyuns, garlic. Yeah buddy!
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posted on
02/07/2018 8:57:58 AM PST
by
rktman
To: rktman
Ear-Bending Cellmate: ...and when there was no meat, we ate fowl and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand.
H.I.: You ate what?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: We ate sand.
H.I.: You ate SAND?
Ear-Bending Cellmate: That's right!
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:02:02 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:03:33 AM PST
by
gr8eman
(Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
To: rktman
Perhaps a consequence of the hormones in Birth Control Pills polluting the water systems?
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:03:38 AM PST
by
G Larry
(There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
To: rktman
There's only one solution to the problem.
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:03:49 AM PST
by
bgill
(CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
To: rktman
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:04:11 AM PST
by
rdl6989
To: bgill
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:04:49 AM PST
by
rdl6989
To: rdl6989
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:07:51 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: bgill
Six inches long!
That’s some good eating
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:07:54 AM PST
by
rdcbn
To: bgill
And a good one at that. One thing we miss about living around the gulf coast.
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:08:45 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: rktman
I sense a movie!
” The Crayfish That Fu*ked Itself Into World Domination”
To: rktman
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:11:01 AM PST
by
logitech
To: billyboy15
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:11:03 AM PST
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: billyboy15
Surely you meant “Fukashimad” Right? LOL!
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:11:27 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:12:37 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
To: rdl6989; rktman
I got a kick out of the way he pronounced “vinegar”.
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:26:46 AM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
To: G Larry
That is a possibility. I doubt whether any research will be done to find out for sure.
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:34:35 AM PST
by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: rktman
The only way to fix this is to introduce the crayfishes natural predator to Germany, the Killer Whale.
Put Shamu into those lakes and he’ll clean out those crayfish while producing endless hours of entertainment for the little German children.
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:35:56 AM PST
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: logitech
Can you use flavored rolling papers?
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posted on
02/07/2018 9:37:20 AM PST
by
1_Inch_Group
(Country Before Party)
To: rktman
Tonight's feature on Monster Chiller Horror Theater is
The Mutant Hermaphrodite Crayfish That Invaded Europe
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