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The pet industry created a new species of crayfish that can clone itself
newsweek.com The pet industry created a new species of crayfish that can clone itself If you start with one marbled crayfish, you can soon have millions.

Most species of crayfish reproduce the same way that humans do: by having sex. But one species of crayfish that evolved out of the pet trade can do something unique—clone itself—and this ability has led populations of the crustacean to spawn out of control.

2 years ago
Source: Newsweek
Tagged: #Crayfish #Pet Trade #Marbled Crayfish #Biology #Hugo
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