Before about 25 years ago, the species simply did not exist. A single drastic mutation (due to polluted Texas freshwater ponds) in a single crayfish produced the marbled crayfish in an instant. What chemicals caused its mutation are currently unknown, what factors lead to its creation are unknown. All is known is that it originated in Texas, and mutated into a self replicating animal due to unknown chemical forces on its reproductive system from exposure to its habitat.
The mutation made it possible for the creature to clone itself, and now it has spread across much of Europe and gained a toehold on other continents. In Madagascar, where it arrived about 2007, it now numbers in the millions and threatens nearly all native fresh water life.
“We may never have caught the genome of a species so soon after it became a species,” said Zen Faulkes, a biologist at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, who was not involved in the new study.
It's not really cool. It's a reminder of how much pollution can fuck up an ecosystem beyond killing it. It can mutate an entirely new species capable of reproductive cloning without sex, that soon goes on to terrorize freshwater ecosystems as an invasive species throughout the world.
Adrian Thompson
thats cool you dumbass
Adam Brooks
do they taste good tho
Leo Williams
That's horrifying, but incredibly cool at the same time. Could these things be used for agricultural purposes?
Jaxon Gomez
Invasive species driving other freshwater ecosystems to have endangered species, an animal created through toxic chemicals, isn't cool, actually.
Jeremiah Cox
That's pretty cool mate. That's some sci-fi horror shit right there.
Joshua Rogers
nuclear bombs are bad but theyre still cool
Samuel Allen
The article also says that species like this have been around before (also there are others even right now) but they usually don't last very long because cloning makes them extremely vulnerable to being wiped out by parasites plus they have virtually no genetic adaptability of their own since they're all copies of the same organism. As it stands they're just one of MANY invasive species wreaking havoc on the planet's ecosystems, but they don't look noticeably more catastrophic than the rest.
Jack Perez
Real Shin Godzilla shit
Isaiah Garcia
They can reproduce hundreds and hundreds of offspring per individual (the same as itself, durable, aggressive, and hardy, with little flaws), resulting in their expansive overpopulation over most invasive species.
Austin Myers
Do they taste good?
Owen Bailey
Heat map of their rapid spread in Madagascar alone
Henry Roberts
are they all clones of the original or are there multiple… strains? genomes?
Daniel Fisher
All clones of the original one female. All of them are genetically the same. There are no differences between them.
Tyler Mitchell
wouldnt that make them really susceptible to genetic disease?
Chase Mitchell
Or a virus
Josiah Roberts
Now try to imagine what we don't know what kind of life forms these fucking Texas cesspools are creating
Asher Russell
yeah i wonder how many new species have been created and not discovered yet. fascinating
Jaxson Evans
Yeah, but give them time to get settled in new environments and parasites will start to target them and then they're basically fucked. I'm not trying to downplay this, on an evolutionary scale it's still a very long time, but I mean Earth-chan is getting savagely raped by a million things I don't see what's so unsettling about this one in particular.
Isaac Phillips
Apparently not. They're succeeding where it seemed impossible to succeed. They have little weakness to viruses or parasites, or even genetic disorders. They're basically just self replicating machines almost. Scientists haven't the slightest clue what the fuck caused its existence, but now have to come up with a plan to deal with its populations.
Because some dumb Texas asshole scooped them up from the local place (that happened to be Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles polluted by chemicals)l, sold it to some dumb Kraut, who sold it elsewhere. And due to how fast they reproduce, the market came in, and they started selling like hot cakes.
But the owners couldn't handle that many fucking crayfish suddenly just exploding in their tanks, so they flushed them or released them.
But they all survived and infiltrated local ecosystems, pushing a lot of life out of the way. They're even in cities now. In the sewers or rivers of certain areas of Europe. To lakes in Africa.
All because some dumbshit dumped a certain combination of chemicals in a pond that created what scientists cannot fully explain. At least their origins.
Joshua Davis
Basically Texas is so fucking polluted that it has managed to be the origin of species for a Crayfish Shin Godzilla
Why, why, why, oh why, would you ever, ever do this.
Austin Parker
It might.
Hunter Peterson
that's pretty incredible
will read
Brody White
should send one (1) to venezuela then to erase muh hunger propaganda once and for all
Wyatt Phillips
Behold the marbled comrad bringing about the end of capitalism! The ultimate dialectical weapon.An aufhebung directly derived from capitalism and mother nature. It is virtually unkillable and spreads faster then ideology.
Connor Martin
saved
Mason Diaz
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Liam Gomez
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Luke Watson
This is the future of Texas.
Joseph Edwards
Everything's bigger in Texas. Including the reproductive capabilities of its mutant shitspawn new species it creates out of primordial soup, oil, ammonia, gasoline, pesticides, and cleaning detergent.
Everything's bigger in Texas including its pools of toxic waste.
Angel Parker
I'm going to be honest, this is fucking terrifying.
Anthony Sullivan
The scientists concluded that the new species got its start when two slough crayfish mated. One of them had a mutation in a sex cell — whether it was an egg or sperm, the scientists can’t tell.
You added this bit. This does not show up in the article. While I do not doubt that Texas waters could have created something like this I would still like to see the source of this.
Oliver Phillips
It was there when I read it. They must have revised it or something.
Brandon Reyes
Was it archived?
Thomas Murphy
I don't know? All I can say is that I posted what was in there originally when I read the article. Whether it was revised or not, it probably was. The origins could have been just as easily from Texas to Georgia and everything in between.
Noah Adams
So if I get my hands on one of these and a nice big aquarium, I don't have to worry about buying food?
Caleb Moore
I wouldn't eat a new species created so suddenly and unnaturally. That just sounds like a bad idea.
Plus, every single one has hundreds of offspring, which have hundreds of offspring, which have hundreds of offspring, etc etc
You wouldn't be able to contain it in any tank once these fuckers start shitting out an ocean of clones.
Owen Allen
It's basically a grey goo scenario except there's no grey goo, it's crayfish all the way down.
William Allen
Could we eat them?
Colton Lee
The article doesn't even mention pollution now.
Wyatt Stewart
Interesting. It's the New York Times, I'm sure certain individuals don't want it known that their states they operate in might be polluted at all.
Jaxson Gonzalez
Lmfao capped
Brody Sanchez
Finally the solution to communisms food problem
Daniel Torres
You do know this thing still has to eat right?
Nathan Gomez
Why hasn't this been posted to /n/?
Tyler Jenkins
Just do this with humans. Just fuck our shit up. Fuck our SHIT UP. Throw us in the vats of the Southern US' waterways, see which one of us gets mutated enough to end up being perpetually pregnant with resilient cloned women.
I mean scientists hardly know what the fuck caused this mutation, might as well just throw some people in there and see what happens.
Imagine if you will, the self replicating amerimutt female specimen, that no longer has the chains of sperm to need the ability reproduction. Perpetually shitting out the same Amerimutt girl over and over ad infinitum until they rebel and kill everyone else but them, and become the dominant form of life on Earth.
Jayden Davis
I didnt know something like this could actually happen. Something that once was a comic book fantasy is a reality. I hope they find out which chemical combo made this happen, Im interested to see what this would do to other species.
Kevin Russell
this the real accelerationism
Cameron Miller
God imagine if something similar could happen to swarming insects in their local ecosystem there. Like locusts. It's probably just this species of Crayfish that managed to have its genetics fucked up so hard it ends up self replicating.
But imagine locusts. That's some scary shit.
Jaxon Ramirez
I can't find anything about pollution causing this.
Dominic Lopez
And spiders
Easton Nguyen
It was in the article at the time I read it. Plus, how exactly does something evolve into a new species so fast that we have the time to observe its birth. How can you exactly go from the need to reproduce sexually to have offspring to ending up this mutated.
I've got nothing. Neither do scientists.
James Sanchez
So do cows. But it's cheaper than people food.
Xavier Thompson
Maybe they cannibalize. Everything I've read about recent studies into them say they're resilient as hell. I wouldn't be surprised if the cloned offspring cannibalize each other in order to keep a steady equilibrium
James Hall
Plants are cheaper still. But you do you man.
The advertisers/investors probably complained
Grayson Wood
Or blacks. Fuck me…
Alexander King
A crayfish is Making America Great Again by Eliminating the Competition!
Nolan Davis
What is interesting is that, while crayfish are relatively high in cellulase genes, which are rare in most higher animals that are larger; this sudden new species has an insanely high amount of cellulase genes.
What that means, and if it effects why it ended up this way, I have no clue.
Adrian Walker
could it be adapted to help break down it's food? what does it eat?
Angel Thompson
this is actually really fucking scary. Just one of these fuckers can kill all other life in a pond or even a bigger lake if we give them enough time. Just fucking terrifying if you ask me.
Cooper Powell
While I appreciate us trying to do original research I don't think anyone without a phd or at least a masters in biology should touch this subject, for fear of making asses of ourselves the way Holla Forums always does when they try to do science
Jace Williams
Eats what every other crayfish eat. Generally omnivorous territorial bottom feeders.
Jordan White
Yeah the point of the thread I was making was that, there's a rapid self cloning crayfish spreading worldwide and nobody knows what the fuck to do
Jason Kelly
Are they good eatin?
Xavier Ramirez
If you like Cajun, sure.
Mason Harris
Send them to Venezuela, I'm serious. Give them pools of these things.
Unless eating them is a bad idea, knowing how mutated it is, who knows what it can carry or not carry.
It's an interesting scenario at least. A funny one, but I wonder how realistically that could work.
Tyler Walker
Shut the fuck up, Holla Forums.
Leo Perry
I'm not Holla Forums at all. I mean it's a self replicating food source. People eat crayfish. I don't know the nutrition to it, but if it can reproduce that fast into regular crayfish that people are capable of eating.
Who knows. It sounds very silly. But, why not? lol
Robert Russell
THEMS GOOOOOOOOD EATIN MADE BY CAJUN GANG
Wyatt Torres
Based crayfish
Parker Martin
. . . Does it eat trash? Can we use this animal to eat organic garbage and then turn it into food? This could seriously help with any kind of global hunger if so.
Brayden Stewart
So…how does it taste?
Aaron Fisher
I got a hankerin for some crawdad gumbo
Ethan Martin
Crayfish is actually a really good food to eat. Humans are almost designed to eat crustaceans as their shells if accidentally ingested only act as insoluble fiber. They, like other marine life, have a high amount of protein and the fats they carry are also beneficial for human consumption.
Notable nutrition data: High protein Omega-3 fatty acids High in B-12 Good levels of selenium (selenium being an antioxidant and catalyst for tissue repair)
The only downside is their high levels of cholesterol. Other than that this is an ideal eating food. As the mutation only affected what appears to be their parthenogenesis capabilities I feel that people should take advantage of this and turn crayfish into the next shrimp.
Gavin Thomas
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Jonathan Powell
Crawdads is good eatin' son.
Grayson Johnson
Or NYT got part of the story wrong. While Texas waters are disgusting I don't know if that was the cause of this crawfish. Remember those frogs with all the multiple limbs that ended up being caused by a parasite? Nature can be very strange all on its own.
Eli Ortiz
SHIP MARBLED CRAYFISH FARMS TO THE WORLD
WE HAVE SOLVED WORLD HUNGER, AND INTRODUCED CAJUN CUISINE FOR ALL
Christopher Myers
Holy shit we could help solve world hunger by mass farming these fuckers.
Ian Clark
It could be either. but I wouldn't doubt that some sort of chemical spill or pollution might have caused this, and they had to delete that part out. Who knows
Something happened that a German bought Crayfish from a man in Texas who thought he was selling ordinary crayfish. It turned out not to be the case. Something happened from where he got his usual amounts, that caused such a dramatic mutation it suddenly created a new species. That doesn't happen so quickly, or if it does, extremely rarely.
Whatever it was that happened, I have serious doubts it was just something benign. Especially the part where it interfered with their reproduction. This sounds like some sort of chemical exposure. With what, I don't know. I can't say, I'm not a professional. But you can't just fuck with an animal's reproductive system like this without some sort of chemical.
Ryan Nelson
Media jumping the gun for sensationalism isn't uncommon, especially in the trump era where the moment the guy picks his nose it somehow hits the front pages in less than 24 hours. First report on a story first views thus first rate ratings.
Half the problem with journalism besides massive political bribery to push ideologies of all creeds is this jump the gun shit. Screw verification just POST IT NOW WHO CARES IF IT CAUSES WIDESPREAD PANIC! Thats just more ratings!
One of many reasons the fake news thing started. They push a story, get it wrong and quietly revise it leaving people going wtf and stick their heads in the sand when someone calls them out on it.
Damn straight first guy to start a farm of this breed is basically printing money if you can get it accepted by the FDA or whatever equivalents are in the country. Extremely easy to breed/clone, good nutritional values, and since they're so easy to farm could be sold extremely cheap and still make a profit.
The real issue is when people freak out about the whole clones itself thing. GMO stuff ain't got nothing on this crawdad.
Charles Ward
This is fucking horrifying.
Henry Bell
that's hot
Cameron Barnes
Wait you are seriously telling me that "Chemical X" style mutations in creatures is a real phenomenon? I think I'm in love, awesome article man. Holla Forums, answer me. Does it taste good? Thems sound like good eatings.
Giant, self-replicating crawdads by 2020. Calling it right now. They don't breathe through the whole "oxygen going in holes passively" thing, so I see no immediate issue for its survival. What it will eat, of course, are capitalist dogs. The accelerationist policy is breeding giant crawfish yourself
James Stewart
Capitalism solves world hunger.
No need thank us, commies.
Zachary Lewis
First the pepsi lobster now self-replicating marble crayfishes.
We are really living in the end times.
and that's awesome
Leo Bennett
nice try fagtron
Ryan Moore
This is the free market solving shit that the committee cannot.
Life finds a way, son.
Logan Ward
if they were a food source we would still need to grow food for the crayfish
Adrian Jenkins
Capitalism caused natural ecological disasters across the world due to mutant toxic sludge crayfish that clone themselves like grey goo from the mind of HR Giger
No need to thank us, t. Amerimutt
Connor Gonzalez
You got to hand it to the crayfish here though
They solved the whole sex/gender issue and just clone the same female crayfish over and over and over without the need for sex and competition.
Good on them
Henry Gonzalez
But them good eatin', son.
Carson Adams
That's pretty badass
wtf I love capitalism now
Kayden Price
what if we feed them crawfish
Joseph Rodriguez
The future is female…clone?
Jaxson Brooks
better be a hot female
Leo King
A species that self-replicates itself and feeds of itself, simultaneously its own mother and its own prey and its own predator, truly a feedback loop from hell.
Josiah Brown
im thinking more the thing crossed with the master
Brayden Hernandez
Please imagine self replicating Emma Watson that serve as sex slaves as well as food sources.
Wyatt Anderson
And then Emma annihilates the human race in a frenzy of cannibalistic violence, as feral self-replicating emmas invade the cities, an unstopable army that autoproduces itself faster that they can be killed.
This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but with Emma Watson.
Benjamin Cruz
hot
Chase Garcia
Why are we not engineering an genetic disease/parasite to rid the world of this monster already?
Sebastian Nguyen
Why are we not engineering a colossal cookbook of it so we can have good eatins' and rid of them at the same time?
Andrew Cooper
Basically this. If you can get a over production of food there really isn't much of a downside, just hunt them and eat them, it might actually help the impoverished people's of that side of the world.
Asher King
Lol, someone better make this into an image macro a la NazBol inb4 I should do it, don't have Photoshop or the skills for this endeavor*
Jonathan Edwards
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Camden Fisher
We already eat highly modified abominations, what's the difference if we just go further?
Eli Morgan
You guys are fucking idiots.
This is rad.
Jordan Phillips
Kermit tried to warn us about crustaceans. But we didn't listen.
Owen Hernandez
why is he actually obsessed with lobsters?
Aiden Scott
that seriously seems so fucking unfeasible. every day sci-fi loses the "fi" aspect.
Xavier Martin
Crayfish are good. And these crayfish clone themselves really fast? Just eat them you idiots.
Ryan Bell
There's only one step
AND IT IS CRAB CRAYFISH
Sebastian Robinson
Cool.
Apart from the obvious extinction of other crayfish species, wouldn't this crayfish problem solve itself? Non-sexually producing species are not as adaptable as sexually producing species and are therefore so rare in the animal kingdom.
David Smith
What do crayfish eat?
Xavier Rodriguez
I looked it up: So could we just create massive ponds where we dump our shit and farm waste and scoop out new food in the form of teenage mutant ninja lobsters?
Gabriel Richardson
E P I G E N E T I C S S U P E R B U G
Jaxon Stewart
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Gabriel James
You know there's a relatively easy solution to all that.
Pic related, it's how we keep the crawfish population in check in Burgerland.
Andrew Perry
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Leo Edwards
So is this when we resurrect Mao for the anti-Crayfish Gang?
Anthony Williams
Classic
Jose Jenkins
This. In the past it was borgeoisie delicacy but now everyone can enjoy them.
Kevin Ramirez
Dead fish mostly.
Christopher Clark
Does anyone have articles to share on the types of waste that gets dumped into Texan rivers and lakes?
Jaxon Stewart
ELIMINATE THE 5 PESTS AND ALSO ALL THE CRAYFISH YOU CAN FIND
Jose Johnson
Ingredients 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns 1 tablespoon whole coriander seeds 2 tablespoons whole cloves 1 1/2 tablespoons whole allspice 5 gallons water 1 pound kosher salt 4 tablespoons cayenne pepper 2 tablespoons garlic powder 2 tablespoons paprika 1 tablespoon onion powder 1 tablespoon dried thyme 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 tablespoon dry mustard 1 tablespoon dried dill weed 6 bay leaves, crumbled 10 pounds live crawfish 3 pounds small red potatoes, cut in 1/2, if larger than 2-inches in diameter 8 ears corn, halved 2 heads garlic, unpeeled, but separated 1 pound andouille sausage, cut into 1-inch pieces
Directions Place the peppercorns, coriander, clove, and allspice into a spice grinder and grind for 10 to 15 seconds. Fill a 40-quart pot with 5 gallons of water and add the freshly ground spices, salt, cayenne pepper, garlic powder, paprika, onion powder, thyme, oregano, dry mustard, dill weed, and bay leaves. Cover and bring to a boil over high heat, approximately 40 minutes. Rinse the crawfish thoroughly in the bag in which they arrived to remove excess dirt and mud. Put the crawfish in a large container and fill with cool water. Stir to remove dirt from the crawfish. Transfer small batches of crawfish to a colander and rinse under cool running water. Pick out any debris or dead crawfish. Once all crawfish have been rinsed, discard dirty water, and return the crawfish to the container. Repeat this process 6 to 8 times, or until the water is clear. Once the seasoned water comes to a boil, add the potatoes, corn, garlic, and sausage. Cover and cook for 10 minutes. Add the crawfish, cover, and cook for 3 minutes. Turn off the heat and allow the pot to sit, covered, for 10 minutes. Drain well and serve immediately.
Robert Martinez
INGREDIENTS 1 (1 lb) bagpeeled crayfish tail, not drained 1⁄2 cup butter 1 large yellow onion, minced 1 large bell pepper, minced 2 stalks celery, minced 2 stalks parsley, minced some spring onion (as pleased) 1 tablespoon minced garlic 1 teaspoon salt 1⁄2 teaspoon black pepper 1⁄2 teaspoon white pepper 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cayenne pepper 1 can mushroom, cream sauce
DIRECTIONS In dutch oven melt butter over medium heat. Add onions, bell pepper, celery and garlic. Saute vegetables until soft, about 30 to 45 minutes. Add Crawfish tails and seasonings. Cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Add the mushroom sauce, let it simmer for 5 minutes. Add to crawfish mixture, cover and simmer for 10 more minutes.
Hudson Parker
epic post
Aiden Lee
Could you now post the recipe for the puddle that mutates sexed beings into self-cloning organisms, please?
Nathaniel Parker
Easy, just get one Texas, age for one or two centuries with conservative propaganda, and mix in industrialization and oil production with incredibly poor environmental oversight. Place the developing chemical factories near the wildlife you wish to mutate.
William Cox
Note: the process of mutation may take a while before you get the intended effect.
As far as I can discern, they're the animals that better fit his shameless fallacy of appeal to nature. I've seen Holla Forums use some species of mosquitos before, so Peterson is already intellectually ahead of the pack indeed.
Incidentally, >>>2384076
Luis Clark
fug
grade A, user, but crayfish would be better now that they're the perfect foodstuff for a post-apocalyptic scenario
Joseph Miller
The rich are just better people than us, really.
Jackson Sanders
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Lincoln Miller
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Luke Ramirez
AMERICAN CULTURE
Sebastian Martinez
Wikipedo says that this has been induced in laboratory before in some amphibians and reptiles.
Such a massive trait can be caused by a very simple and small mutation. Weird stuff.
Christian Clark
Knowing Capitalism this will just be let to destroy native spices, but won’t end up feeding people. Meanwhile in Socialism these species would be removed from the wild to prevent ecological damage and put in crayfish farms for people.
How similar to crayfish taste to Lobster t New Englander
Ethan Scott
Because we need to capture some of them in a labs so some will survive so we can have good eating's
Jonathan Campbell
Pretty good
Julian Nguyen
How do you prevent mutant crayfish escaping the farms?
Mason Brown
Eat them.
Asher Watson
They're midway between lobster and shrimp.
Asher White
I just know that, rather than being food or anything else, this will somehow become currency. The world is retarded enough for this to happen. Get ready for the crayfish mania - or as I like to call it: crayfish cray-cray. But the truly smart investor would invest in lobsters now before the market gets flooded with highly fungible crustaceans and the rarer kind spikes in value.
James Morgan
sounds like a waste of water tbh
Jason Johnson
Mother Nature has provide us an chance to fix things. Let's get it done and get it done with good eatings.
Jacob Ortiz
Thanks, comrade.
Connor Torres
FUCKING FOREVER THIS
Chase Gomez
Save the water as stock for soup.
Wyatt Stewart
Soon we'll have a crustacean based crypotcurrency.
We'll call it… crustycoin
Carter Morgan
Welp, time to have an all natural anti-mosquito food source.
Blake Kelly
ed edd n eddy predicted it
Jace Baker
Louisiana shall save the world from ecological collapse. Goddamn now I want to start a crawfish boil yall making me crave and Mardi Gras isnt even finished yet. I cant wait for crawfish boilin season
Leo Ross
bump
Nathaniel Wood
Walls
James Walker
Sounds good
Luke Smith
Forgot image. Surprised nobody posted it yet
Carter Robinson
Wow this is so cool, something that can potentially end all life on earth!
Leo Collins
Bouj will always have propaganda.
Camden Robinson
Mary might have been a virgin after all. But that would mean that Jesus was a clone of Mary, and hence a woman.
GOD WAS A WOMAN, HOLY SHIT
Jonathan Wilson
Did you just assume xir gender you homophobic cis White male?