Maldives has re-entered international history after a British team of scientists managed to isolate a new species of cockroaches inside the capital’s many restaurants and cafes.
The recent topsecret MFDA investigations into restaurants located in Male’ City spurred interest in its thriving insect populations and the team of entomologists were able to identify two new species of cockroaches, each indigenous to the restaurant in which it was found.
"We were quite astonished to see huge populations of new species living harmoniously with the food we eat," said Dr. Brian Fletcher, who heads the research, and who thinks he’s Maldivian.
According to the research paper to be published in the latest issue of Nature, the cockroaches split from its original species rapidly over generations of gradual genetic mutations.
“The restaurant buildings served as a confined and safe ecosystem where large insect populations could be sustained, and left alone to fester for decades, to make way for the evolution of unique features," said Dr. Fletcher.
However, he added that his team was still baffled as to how a more complicated organism like a goat came into existence from within the confines of a toilet of one of the restaurants.
“Cockroaches can create new colonies by crawling through small spaces and getting themselves to new pastures. But a goat emerging from a toilet? It defies every law of Evolution that we currently know.”
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