Cue scary music: Cockroaches that can survive New York winters reach the U.S.

Say hi to Manhattan's newest invasive species, Periplaneta japonica

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(Image credit: (Illustration by Lauren Hansen | Images courtesy Thinkstock))

Cockroaches will outlive us all.

A few species here in America can already survive a thermonuclear holocaust, reproduce dozens of offspring at a time, and can live for weeks if their heads should happen to be inconveniently separated from their bodies.

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Chris Gayomali is the science and technology editor for TheWeek.com. Previously, he was a tech reporter at TIME. His work has also appeared in Men's Journal, Esquire, and The Atlantic, among other places. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.