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  • Scientists say cockroach milk is 3 times more nutritious than cow’s milk

    08/25/2022 8:07:40 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 67 replies
    Strange Sounds ^ | 8/24/22 | Strange Sounds
    I don’t want and will not drink that sh*t… But many will… An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. The reason? It’s more than four times as nutritious as cow’s milk and the researchers think it could be the key to feeding our growing population in the future. Although most cockroaches don’t actually produce milk, Diploptera punctate, which is the only known cockroach to give birth to live young, has been shown to pump out a type of ‘milk’ containing protein crystals to feed its babies. The fact that an...
  • Giant cockroach among jungle find

    12/24/2004 3:32:37 AM PST · by bd476 · 69 replies · 1,930+ views
    BBC News Asia-Pacific ^ | Thursday, 23 December, 2004
    "A "monster" cockroach and other new insects have been discovered in the jungles of Borneo, scientists say. An expedition of caves and cliffs, led by the Nature Conservancy, also said it saw previously unknown fish and plants. "In just five weeks, the expedition team discovered numerous new species previously unknown to science," the conservancy's Scott Stanley said. "Who knows what else is out there?" he added, calling for the area surveyed in East Kalimantan to be preserved. "If something is not done soon to protect these areas, dozens of species could disappear before anyone knew they ever existed." Borneo...