The Lake Niangua Extrusion – Google Docs
The Lake Niangua Extrusion
Lake Niangua is an extremely shallow lake in Camden county, Missouri. Ostensibly. Well, yes, it really is a shallow lake. You can fish there, and everything. Just don’t do a chromosomal analysis of the fish, because their DNA is left-handed.
And it’s not just the fish; the entire ecosystem of that lake is left-handed — or, to (mis)use the technical terms: the ecosystem there displays mostly Z-DNA helical structures instead of Earth’s more usual B-DNA structures. Which seems to make the fish look weird and taste a little funny, but that’s about it. But what makes the situation very strange is that the effect is absolutely limited to that one lake; flora and fauna taken from it (or introduced to it) prove remarkably difficult to transplant.