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DNA Reveals How German Cockroaches Came to Dominate the World (www.smithsonianmag.com)
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[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago

The real third reich

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

They was bugs all along. Better for stomping.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

They ratatouilled the Nazis just to reach the whole world.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I knew it. Inform the vanguard.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

Typical german behaviour

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Because they won cockroach world war 2?

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

“The German cockroach can’t even fly,” Qian Tang, lead author of the study and an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University,

I dunno about that

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Have you seen one fly? They have wings but the only time I've ever seen a roach fly was at school and it was way too big to be german

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Some of us Germans can be incredibly big so I wouldn't be sure about that either.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I grew up in the Philippines. I don't know what kind we had there but they were big (1.5-2" in length) and they definitely flew.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

German cockroaches don't get nearly that size

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

There is a type of cockroach that can fly, if it's hot and humid enough. It lives in Florida, along with many other places.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

By living in German cocks, obviously

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Last time I checked the Soviets stopped German cockroaches' attempt at world domination

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