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A 14-year-old girl from Maine had a great morning at sea when she pulled up something she's never caught before -– a rare blue lobster. Check out these rare lobsters: Meghan LaPlante's catch ...
He does eat lobster but “never any of those colorful ones,” he said. One of Frederich's lobsters, Tamarind, is the typical color on one side and orange on the other. That is because two lobster eggs fused and grew as one animal, Frederich said. He said that's thought to be as rare as 1 in 50 million.
Frederich is working on noninvasive ways to extract genetic samples from lobsters to try to better understand the molecular basis for rare shell coloration. Frederich maintains a collection of strange-colored lobsters at the university's labs and has been documenting the progress of the offspring of an orange lobster named Peaches who is housed ...
While blue lobsters are one-in-two-million, orange lobsters, like Cheddar, are one-in-30-million: Very rare, but Ripley's Aquarium of Canada had a similar rescue last year."
The blue color is due to an overwhelming amount of a particular protein that the lobster produces. It's technically a genetic defect, but it looks like a genetic advancement! The two-pound lobster ...
In any case, when blue lobsters are caught they are either released back into the sea or placed in local aquariums. [26] [27] [28] Red (live) 1 in 10 million Red lobster coloration is the typical result of cooking, which is caused by the chemical astaxanthin reacting with boiling water. [29]
The bright orange lobster, named "Cheddar" by Red Lobster employees, was sent to live at an aquarium. 1-in-30 million rare lobster spared from steamer after Red Lobster employees discover her in ...
Last week, Jacob Knowles, a fisherman from Maine, found the extremely rare crustacean that is half brown, half blue with the colours perfectly split down its body. The lobster is also half-male ...