• azi@mander.xyz
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    30 days ago

    Marbled crayfish are pretty cool. A new species that evolved in captivity

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      29 days ago

      Oh, these things are wild! A new species that clones itself rapidly, can carry a crayfish-killing plague, and is relatively rapidly colonizing the planet (freshwater only).

      This feels like a thing spiders do. They can produce several clutches of eggs after mating once. If, without a mate, they could just… do that, “even a single wolf spider egg can contaminate an entire planet.”

      Its a good year for crayfish sci-fi horror