Posted on 10/25/2020 3:36:06 AM PDT by sevinufnine
Escaped self-cloning mutant crayfish created in experimental breeding programs have invaded a Belgian cemetery. Hundreds of the duplicating crustaceans, which can dig down to up to a meter and are always female, pose a deadly threat to local biodiversity after colonizing a historic Antwerp graveyard. “It’s impossible to round up all of them. It’s like trying to empty the ocean with a thimble,” said Kevin Scheers of the Flemish Institute for Nature and Woodland Research. Marbled crayfish, which travel across land and water at night and eat whatever they can, do not occur in nature and are banned by the European Union. Instead the freshwater beasts, which are about 10cm big and voracious, are thought to have been bred by unscrupulous German pet traders in the 1990s.
They are similar to the slough crayfish found in Florida but are parthenogenetic, which means they reproduce with themselves and all their children are genetically identical females.
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“Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish”
That sounds like a 1950s Sci-fi movie.
Graveyard?
A land battle?
Marines from the Cajun Navy are standing by!
Semper File.
Sounds like a sci-fi horror movie. Next they’ll be attacking small mammals.
;>)
pong
I'd like to see the seafood restaurant that would dare to put "Mutant Cemetery Crayfish" on their bill of fare!
Bon Appetit, indeed!
Regards,
Butter and Frank’s - yum
Hey, if a crazy “church” in West Virginia has folks that attend regularly to handle rattlesnakes, folks would be turned on my mutant crayfish no doubt. I’d at least try them. How bad could they be compared to heterosexual crayfish? haha
OMG I love Frank’s Hot Sauce. Especially on quality sardines and crackers...
Same here!
>Semper File
Well played
“...they reproduce with themselves and all their children are genetically identical females.”
Feminists’ dream come true.
I almost posted that too ;)
>>Escaped cloned female mutant crayfish”
That sounds like a 1950s Sci-fi movie.<<
Or a 1990s hair rock band.
It's about time!
Really good on stuffed clams/quahogs...
There are carcinogens of every kind
in every form that you can find
at the cemetery or on the bill of fare.
Some folks die from drinking whisky
but eating crayfish is just as risky
and it’s often a bad mistake to breathe the air.
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