Crocs might just be the indestructible cockroaches of the fashion industry.
The buzz all started back in 2016, when an international team of researchers conducted a nutritional analysis of the milk-like substance that female Pacific beetle cockroaches produce and feed to their offspring.
In a food waste recycling plant in Zhangqiu district in Jinan, Shandong Province, piles of food waste, freshly delivered here from local restaurants and canteens, are waiting to be recycled - by cockroaches.
As he later wrote, he had a "bunch of neckties hanging on the walls; and when I reached out of a morning to get a fresh necktie, the cockroaches scattered in all directions".
An international team of scientists has just sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches.
Cockroaches are clean, kindly creatures in comparison.
Cockroaches are clean, kindly creatures in comparison.
Cockroaches are clean, kindly creatures in comparison.
The superorganism of an empire of cockroaches.
