Some people saw the link I posted earlier about the electric lobster, and now Im finding a whole bunch more!
Here's the video about the electric blue lobster, happens 1 in 2 mil!
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/...rticle4252810/
Also this lobster showed up in my news feed, owned by the museum,
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- Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic This is Ducker, the spit-back, hermaphrodite lobster that lived in with us in 2003. Our aquarium is still home to many unique looking lobsters from blue and yellow to 'calico'! Come see them all!
I decided to google and find some more weird lobsters!
One of the weirdest and rarest kinds of lobster is the Half-and-Half Lobster. It was so named because it looks like the half is cooked and the other half is raw. It was caught in 2006 by a Maine Fisherman. Only 3 lobster of this kind had seen in the last 35 years. The chance of finding one is estimated at 1 in 50 million. Lobster shells are usually a blend of the three primary colors: red, yellow and blue. The colors mix to form the greenish-brown color of most lobsters. All split-colored lobsters observed have been hermaphroditic.
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One rare kind of lobster is the Blue Lobster, around one in two million lobsters is blue. It was discovered that a genetic defect causes a blue lobster to produce an excessive amount of protein. The protein and a red carotenoid molecule known as astaxanthin, combine to form a blue complex known as crustacyanin, giving the lobster its blue color.
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BOSTON (AP) — So you think blue lobsters are rare? The New England Aquarium is holding a lobster that's way rarer than that.
The aquarium in Boston says it has a calico lobster that could be a 1-in-30 million find.
The lobster is dark with bright orange and yellow spots. It was caught off Winter Harbor, Maine, and is being held at the New England Aquarium for the Biomes Marine Biology Center, a science center in Rhode Island.
Aquarium spokesman Tony Lacasse says calico lobsters are quite rare.
The Maine-based Lobster Conservancy says perhaps one lobster in 1 million is blue, while both the orange and calico versions might be as rare as 1 in 30 million.
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