but that hasn’t been a challenge for the marbled crayfish, at least thus far. Despite its unusual origin and asexual reproductive strategy, it has succeeded in gaining a clawhold all over the world.

The marbled crayfish is one of the strangest evolutionary cases in recent memory. This purely asexual animal was thought to first arise from a weird mutation of a captive species in 1995.

They were able to confirm that all of the crayfish were indeed clones descended from a single organism through the parthenogenesis form of asexual reproduction. The species had very little genetic ...

Sea stars, wasps, marbled crayfish, jellyfish and ants are just a few species that can reproduce asexually. Among vertebrates, or animals with backbones, asexual reproduction is more rare. However, ...

From a carp that can reach 45 kilograms to a female crayfish that reproduces without a male, the summer of 2023 saw new invasive species spottings in Ontario. With the climate crisis expected ...