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Category: crustacean • lobster
Posted on: December 28, 2008 3:13 PM, by ableiman
We (I) here at Zooillogix have a thing for lobsters. It involves Belgium, pasta tongs, and a Dutch boy named Lourens. I'll leave it at that.
Anyway, this mutant lobster was pulled out of the briny depths near Newport, RI earlier this month. Lobsterman Patrick Marks sometimes releases lobster "when they look at him funny" and so this almost-Pokemon-character was returned to the sea after a day-long publicity tour.
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That thing could give you a heck of a pinch!
Posted by: Frasque | December 28, 2008 8:51 PM
A fine lobster tail you tell. The extra claws turned out to be a release clause!
Posted by: Ian | December 28, 2008 9:27 PM
Returned to the sea? Forget about it. Introduce to the pot. Extra butter.
Posted by: vanderleun@comcast.net | December 28, 2008 11:35 PM
Wowwwww. . .creepy.
Posted by: Jenbug | December 29, 2008 8:33 AM
or as we say down East,lobstahhh
Posted by: ym | December 29, 2008 2:08 PM
There's been a mutant lobster bonanza the last couple years.
Is someone doing a study to find out if this sort of thing is increasing? We've got blue lobsters, fuzzy white lobsters, two-tone lobters and it's only a matter of time before one comes out with a handlebar mustache and a "Mom" tattoo.
Posted by: Jives | December 29, 2008 2:22 PM
That's Clawbster, which evolves into Clawking when it reaches level 32.
Posted by: Zach Miller | December 29, 2008 3:25 PM
I used to work at the seafood department in a chain supermarket. Someone once asked me "Why do your crabs only have a blob of meat at the ends of two of their legs" I said "Do you mean the claws?"
To that, they replied "Yeah, whatever they're called. Why don't you order crabs with claws at the end of all their legs?"
I told her those aren't available this time of year.
Posted by: Gary F | December 31, 2008 7:23 PM
I think I love you, Gary! That's hysterical!
Posted by: juliagoolia | January 1, 2009 1:22 PM
I would think this the result of a "developmental insult" rather than a mutation. To me, mutation implies a change in the genome, which I doubt is the case here. Probably more developmental insults in the sea these days than there used to be.
Posted by: Jim Thomerson | January 2, 2009 2:28 PM
BIGGGGGGG creepy!!!!
Posted by: john | January 6, 2009 12:05 PM
We hold this bug istanbulda fish caught by fish network .... very good, but it can not tell a superior number of animals is very low.
Posted by: neon | April 4, 2009 6:46 AM
Returned to the sea? Forget about it. Introduce to the pot. Extra butter.That thing could give you a heck of a pinch!
Posted by: neon | April 11, 2009 9:31 AM