No one knows exactly when the clones first appeared, but humans only became aware of them in the early 2000s.
It was a German aquarium owner who first brought it to scientists' attention. In 1995, he had acquired a bag of "Texas crayfish" from an American pet trader, only to find his tank inexplicably filling up with the creatures. They were all, it turns out, clones. Sometime, somewhere, the biological rule that making baby crayfish required a mama crayfish and papa crayfish was no longer inviolate. The eggs of the hobbyist's all-female crayfish did not need to be fertilized. They simply grew into copies of their "mother"—in a process known as parthenogenesis.
Crayfish specialists were astonished. No one had seen anything like it. But the proof was before their eyes and in 2003, scientists dubbed the creatures marbled crayfish, or Marmorkreb in German.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/attack-of-the-crayfish-clones/552236/
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:27PM (3 children)
cook em like a cajun and they are delicious.
(Score: 5, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 06 2018, @06:38PM (2 children)
Cloning is one thing, but the last thing we need in a situation like this is cooking advice from cannibals!! (How do you cook cajuns, anyway? Just curious.)
(Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 06 2018, @08:47PM (1 child)
You start with your holy trinity--that's mirepoix, but it's onions, bell pepper, and celery--and get it nice and sautee'd up on medium heat, then add your meat...you know where this is going.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Tuesday February 06 2018, @09:08PM
And here I thought you just boiled 'em up, rip off the heads and suck out the juice!