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DNA Reveals How German Cockroaches Came to Dominate the World (www.smithsonianmag.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The real third reich

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They was bugs all along. Better for stomping.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They ratatouilled the Nazis just to reach the whole world.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

I knew it. Inform the vanguard.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

The real third roach

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

Typical german behaviour

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago

Because they won cockroach world war 2?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

“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 11 months ago (2 children)

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 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago

German cockroaches don't get nearly that size

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

By living in German cocks, obviously