Frank Lyko, a biologist at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, studies the 6-inch-long marbled crawfish. Finding specimens is easy: Lyko can buy the crawfish at pet stores in Germany, or ...

A genome study has proven that all specimen of Marmorkrebs, or marbled crayfish, originate from a single female. About 30 years ago, the original clone evolved in an aquarium. Ever since, the female ...

Although only one female should have been in the aquarium, there are crayfish that lay a large amount of eggs and grow rapidly, and from the past research it turned out that "the child that was ...

A crayfish with remarkable ability to clone itself is taking over Europe. Interestingly, the species did not even exist about 25 years ago. The creature started to become popular among aquarium ...

A mysterious species of crayfish discovered in German aquaria can reproduce without mating 1. It could pose a serious threat to their European freshwater cousins, new research shows. It's too late to ...